Un/Contained: MFA Thesis - Ceramics
| dc.contributor.author | O'Connell Reid, Jennifer | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-05-23T13:09:29Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-06-22T14:31:43Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-05-23T13:09:29Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-06-22T14:31:43Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2018-05 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12648/569 | |
| dc.description.abstract | My work revolves around the phenomenological experience of botanical enrapture. I explore the ways in which the vessel grounds otherwise unfathomable abstractions of desire and intimacy. I work with typologies of the vessel form and histories of floral ornament, taking parts that are essential and distilling them in a dance between form, surface, and space. Decoration becomes physical form. Symbiotic connections manifest within the installation through color and material. Activated surfaces and light-admitting apertures function as entry points for the viewer to pause and reciprocally experience a relationship between the body, the pot, and the flower. In the installation, this experience becomes immersive and plays with our perception and visceral response to things of beauty through an offer of containment and open form. | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Anat Shiftan & Bryan Czibesz Jennifer Schoonmaker Thomas Sarrantonio Michael Humphreys Matthew Friday Chris Reid Jessica Gaddis Tamar Hedges Andrew Sartorius Emily Brownawell Heather Rosenbach | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.rights | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States | * |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/ | * |
| dc.subject | Research Subject Categories::HUMANITIES and RELIGION::Aesthetic subjects::Art | en_US |
| dc.subject | Ceramic sculpture | en_US |
| dc.subject | Ceramic Exhibitions | en_US |
| dc.subject | Sculpture Exhibitions | en_US |
| dc.subject | Floral decoration | en_US |
| dc.subject | Botanical | en_US |
| dc.subject | Vessels | en_US |
| dc.subject | Ceramic vessel | en_US |
| dc.subject | Earthenware | en_US |
| dc.subject | Terracotta | en_US |
| dc.subject | Installations (Art) Exhibitions | en_US |
| dc.subject | Contemporary ceramics | en_US |
| dc.subject | Space in art | en_US |
| dc.subject | Porcelain | en_US |
| dc.subject | Porcelain slip | en_US |
| dc.subject | Color | en_US |
| dc.subject | Flowers | en_US |
| dc.subject | Love | en_US |
| dc.subject | Steel | en_US |
| dc.subject | Wool | en_US |
| dc.subject | Silk | en_US |
| dc.title | Un/Contained: MFA Thesis - Ceramics | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
| refterms.dateFOA | 2020-06-22T14:31:43Z | |
| dc.description.institution | SUNY College at New Paltz | |
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