Off-campus UMass Amherst users: To download campus access dissertations, please use the following link to log into our proxy server with your UMass Amherst user name and password.
Non-UMass Amherst users: Please talk to your librarian about requesting this dissertation through interlibrary loan.
Dissertations that have an embargo placed on them will not be available to anyone until the embargo expires.
ORCID
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6408-6785
Access Type
Open Access Thesis
Document Type
thesis
Degree Program
Art
Degree Type
Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.)
Year Degree Awarded
2021
Month Degree Awarded
May
Abstract
A written thesis to accompany the M.F.A. Exhibition Mending What’s Invisible, in which the artist’s personal experiences and memories explore the cultural identities and femininity in Korea and the US. These identities are explored by using traditional Korean motifs, embroidery patterns, and the visual images of the artist's childhood photographs in the projects of “Reconnecting of Nostalgia” and “Mutating”. Also the visual clips of the artist's hometown is demonstrated in the video project “Things I hated” that discusses criticalities of Korean cultures and a sense of nostalgia for childhood in Korea. The project comes out of a personal need to connect the artists' different identities but also wants to create an awareness of the conflict between different cultural understandings of Korea and the US.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.7275/22797901.0
First Advisor
Jenny Vogel
Second Advisor
Jeff Kasper
Third Advisor
Mahwish Chishty
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Recommended Citation
Yoon, Chaehee, "Mending What’s Invisible" (2021). Masters Theses. 1081.
https://doi.org/10.7275/22797901.0
https://scholarworks.umass.edu/masters_theses_2/1081
Included in
Art Practice Commons, Fiber, Textile, and Weaving Arts Commons, Fine Arts Commons, Other Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Commons, Painting Commons, Women's Studies Commons