Date of Graduation

5-2023

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Fine Arts in Art (MFA)

Degree Level

Graduate

Department

Art

Advisor/Mentor

Mitchell, Marc

Committee Member

King, Sam

Second Committee Member

Amirvaghef, Maryamsadat

Third Committee Member

Thompson, Jody

Keywords

Landscape; Painting

Abstract

From an Unlikely Place, a collection of eight ambitious paintings created while in residence at the University of Arkansas, examines the intersections of landscape painting, gendered gaze, feminine experience and the language of abstraction. One of the challenges I faced while working on this project was finding points of connection between verbal and visual language. As an artist, I consider where vulnerability, sensitivity and generosity intersect my work and am curious about the strange potential an individual's visual language; in my case, a concoction of abstract and figurative forms has to communicate the quality of experience. When placed together on a painting’s surface, signifiers of feminine experience, my feminine experience, trigger a sensation of the sublime. With generous intent I offer the experience of From an Unlikely Place to the viewer. My hope is that they, too, might find the freedom to get lost in quiet contemplation and pay it forward.

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