This program is one of the best kept secrets for graduate study in Fine Art. I am still in a daze from the whirlwind of the past two years. My work has grown in proportion to the hours I have spent making it. I have discovered who I am as an artist and am ready to find gallery representation. The most affirming part of this experience was that I kept growing as an artist, worked with faculty who really cared about me and sold work as a student.
I created a body of work for a group thesis show, gave an artist talk summarizing my thesis and had to defend it in a thesis defense. My defense was with a traditional painter, abstract painter and conceptual installation artist. I have discovered that I am what I call a "transitional" painter. I walk the line between representation and abstraction in my imagery, so I am not fully a representational painter, or fully an abstract painter, nor do I fit in as a minimalist and work with both digital and traditional media as the idea dictates.
The thesis took me four months to write, I am proud to present it as Eastern Seeds, Western Soil: A Path to Transcendence. In it I have written about the nature of perception, impermanence and the role of emotion leading to the ineffable. I talk about the spiritual in art as my motivation to create art. It is a genuine discussion of my growth as an artist fueled by my concerns as a human being.You can read more by clicking on the thesis title and downloading the pdf file.
This blog will morph into a journal of what is next, as I figure out my artist life after graduate school.It is vital to my artist life that I connect with other painters who are on the same path I am and that I find out who my artist community is. Your comments, suggestions, ideas and feedback are welcome as I grapple with the bigger question: WHAT IS NEXT?
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