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Regalia and Repetition
Document Type: Open Access
Degree Program
Art
Degree Type
Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.)
Year Degree Awarded
2009
Month Degree Awarded
May
Primary Subject Category
Art
Keywords
collage, contemporary art, paper
Advisor(s) or Committee Chair
Macdonald, Shona
Abstract
My thesis investigates some of the conceptual ideas related to my studio work, both in terms of theory and contemporary practice. This thesis focuses how the visual images formally operate, as well as the larger framework of discourse that surrounds my practice. In my work, the habitual, incessant process of cutting and extraction and the subsequent meticulous reconfiguring use the strategies of repetition and labor. These sustained, ongoing acts have the possibility to be generative or transformative rather than simply repetitive. This thesis also explores the found object, complicating the classification and knowledge systems of the source image with odd juxtapositions and reconfigurements. This body of work presents and develops several contradictions: the gimmick or lure of the initial appearance versus the underlying reality; the paradox between the promise of beauty or pleasure, and the sense of antagonism or disruption embedded in these images.
Discipline(s)
Art Practice | Contemporary Art
Recommended Citation
Karpman, Deborah I., "Regalia and Repetition" (2009). Masters Theses. Paper 296.
http://scholarworks.umass.edu/theses/296
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