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dc.contributor.authorOzeri, Michal
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-22T14:49:23Z
dc.date.accessioned2020-06-22T14:31:44Z
dc.date.available2017-05-22T14:49:23Z
dc.date.available2020-06-22T14:31:44Z
dc.date.issued2017-05
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12648/572
dc.description.abstractThe world is full of seams. Seams that split and bind our society, open and stitch up gaps between us. Borders that are transient and enduring, able to be minimized and expanded, mobile and static. They can be ripped, resewn in a new composition, and ripped yet again. Reduced in both color and shape, yet bearing texture and density: the wall, the body and the land—the black, the pink, and the white. My mind is preoccupied by the Israeli reality: living on the edge of continuous war, opposite ideologies and military culture. In my current work, I call attention to complex issues underlying the “Seamline” separation barrier, created to separate two nations in constant war. My thesis explores my interest in materiality and alchemy, history and process, color choice and use, composition, and the essential and overriding dialogue between these. To a great extent I have been intuitively practicing these elements for some time now. Yet, while researching for my thesis and discovering works of artists such as Alberto Burri (1915-1995) and Giorgio Morandi (1890-1964), I have been pulled towards articulating connections between their works and mine, highlighting certain of their practices as I sense their relationship to mine. The concrete research deriving from these artists has inspired me in my own work and process, pushing me not only to make further connections in my experience and paintings, but pushing me also to continue experimenting with the styles I have been intuitively leaning towards. My thesis argument is that art is life. I mean this in the sense that one’s life and experiences influence one’s creative journey and particular sensitivities: specific experiences shape the ways we live in this world, and therefore shape, too, the ways we create in this world. To this end, Part I of my thesis focuses on Burri and Morandi, their lives and their creative choices, highlighting the ways in which they are of direct artistic interest to me. Part II of my thesis focuses on my own work, pulling connecting threads and pushing the boundaries of those threads to their present potential. en_US
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/*
dc.subjectResearch Subject Categories::HUMANITIES and RELIGION::Aesthetic subjects::Arten_US
dc.subjectPainting Exhibitionsen_US
dc.subjectSculpture Exhibitionsen_US
dc.subjectAlberto Burrien_US
dc.subjectGiorgio Morandien_US
dc.subjectSeamsen_US
dc.subjectSeamlineen_US
dc.subjectIsraelen_US
dc.subjectMilitary cultureen_US
dc.subjectAlchemyen_US
dc.subjectMaterialityen_US
dc.subjectStitchesen_US
dc.subjectPsychoanalysisen_US
dc.subjectPatchworken_US
dc.subjectCalvesien_US
dc.subjectTensionen_US
dc.subjectWaren_US
dc.subjectTraumaen_US
dc.subjectBorderen_US
dc.subjectBarriersen_US
dc.subjectJerusalemen_US
dc.subjectSocietyen_US
dc.subjectPinken_US
dc.subjectBlacken_US
dc.subjectBodyen_US
dc.subjectIdeologyen_US
dc.subjectPOWen_US
dc.titleSeams: The wall, The body, The land, MFA Thesis - Painting and Drawingen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
refterms.dateFOA2020-06-22T14:31:44Z
dc.description.institutionSUNY College at New Paltz
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