SMFA Senior Thesis Project May, 2017.
Kushi, Teruko Isabella.
2017
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Generally we relate to paintings as we relate to windows: what matters exists beyond the surface. However, what we see exists simultaneously here and there. Painting tells us as much about how we see as about whatwe see. More than materiality on canvas, painting is a way of seeing; a display of sight in revelation. When we encounter a display of seeing - objectified and isolated - it confr... read moreonts us with how we see ourselves. Rather than working to transcend materiality in a painting, my work aims to emphasize the material body. My work frames paintings as objects, in which the materiality is sculptural, physical and animate. I imagine the bodies of my paintings looking back at me, reflecting not what but how I see. Painting sees me. Recently I’ve been interested in making work which forces the viewer to recognize how it is looked at. I create situations where the work asks you to lay down, touch, smell, enter, or speak to it to be experienced. I attempt to pose questions on how we see all things in relationship, specifically the ways material can transform in and out of context - How rugs can become tapestries when placed on walls, or paintings become graffiti when created outside. I believe the hierarchies built into space through architecture play equally into how we perceive paintings as the paint on canvas. It is these frameworks that mediate how we view what is “art” and what is not. I aim to subvert and disrupt the the lense which defines painting, by viewing painting as an expanded field occupying all spaces and definitions.
Keywords: painting, installation, sculpture, performance, fiber, light installation.read less - ID:
- h415pp18m
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- tufts:23258
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