My practice consists of painting, ceramic sculptures, and performance to consider the construction of self-identity and the role of agency and labor in this construction. Mining my life experiences as a point of departure, I question how visual images, sculptural abstractions, and physical movement create a multi-dimensional representation of the self and how the body is a vehicle for the expression and formation of the self. I source images from family photos and film stills to question how I have embodied qualities from the women in these images. I will discuss my thesis exhibition My Pleasure (Forever Yours) to unpack particular decisions made within the works and how they relate to the larger narrative that I construct.
Thesis
My pleasure (forever yours)
University of Iowa
Master of Fine Arts (MFA), University of Iowa
Spring 2018
DOI: 10.17077/etd.0uugwiec
Abstract
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- My pleasure (forever yours)
- Creators
- Marina Ross - University of Iowa
- Contributors
- Susan Chrysler White (Advisor)Tameka Norris (Committee Member)Andrew Casto (Committee Member)Ronald Rozencohn (Committee Member)
- Resource Type
- Thesis
- Degree Awarded
- Master of Fine Arts (MFA), University of Iowa
- Degree in
- Art
- Date degree season
- Spring 2018
- DOI
- 10.17077/etd.0uugwiec
- Publisher
- University of Iowa
- Number of pages
- viii, 17 pages
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2018 Marina Ross
- Comment
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- Language
- English
- Description illustrations
- color illustrations
- Public Abstract (ETD)
My practice consists of painting, ceramic sculptures, and performance to consider the construction of self-identity and the role of agency and labor in this construction. Mining my life experiences as a point of departure, I question how visual images, sculptural abstractions, and physical movement create a multi-dimensional representation of the self and how the body is a vehicle for the expression and formation of the self. I source images from family photos and film stills to question how I have embodied qualities from the women in these images. I will discuss my thesis exhibition My Pleasure (Forever Yours) to unpack particular decisions made within the works and how they relate to the larger narrative that I construct.
- Academic Unit
- School of Art, Art History, and Design
- Record Identifier
- 9983776857302771
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