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That which sees me: painting's unique capacity in an ambivalent age

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dc.contributor.authorPrice, Justin, author
dc.contributor.authorLajarin-Encina, Aitor, advisor
dc.contributor.authorLehene, Marius, committee member
dc.contributor.authorKissell, Kevin, committee member
dc.contributor.authorEmami, Sanam, committee member
dc.date.accessioned2022-05-30T10:21:24Z
dc.date.available2022-05-30T10:21:24Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.description.abstractI use the medium of paint to express my interest in problems for which I do not have the language to express. Born from my obsessive and indecisive tendencies, these preoccupations must be attended to at a distance from myself, a skill paint is specific to accommodate. Paint functions as a corporeal engine of thought, a notion expressed by French phenomenological philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty, showing no distinction between the mind as non-extended or the mind as body/matter. Using paint to address my own disposition of ambivalence, its own ambivalent qualities provide a nuanced context for these interrogations. Paint exists both as itself, color made tactile and concrete, and decidedly descriptive with its illusionistic capabilities. These oppositions also provide a unique perspective to the fluid nature of our modern world burdened by the violence of its systematic naming and control as theorized by Polish sociologist Zygmunt Bauman. Paint is agile to speak of the implications to these ambivalent systems created in ordering our world. Secundino Hernández, Tomory Dodge, and Joshua Hagler are three artist who also deal with the medium of paint as a logic unto-itself. Like them, I explore the subtlety of ambivalence in search of a new constancy.
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dc.identifierPrice_colostate_0053N_17119.pdf
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10217/235202
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherColorado State University. Libraries
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dc.subjectart
dc.subjectpainting
dc.subjectthought
dc.subjectcorporeal
dc.subjectambivalence
dc.subjectthinking
dc.titleThat which sees me: painting's unique capacity in an ambivalent age
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thesis.degree.disciplineArt and Art History
thesis.degree.grantorColorado State University
thesis.degree.levelMasters
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Fine Arts (M.F.A.)

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