The following graduate report is an overview of my artistic endeavors spanning
the past three years at the University of Texas at Austin. While at UT, I have
concentrated on making paintings that focus on the relationship between abstraction,
representation, and entropy. Using banal, often overlooked cultural objects as subject
matter, I paint ambiguous scenes that teeter between disintegration and formation.
Representations of banal detritus within an ambiguous natural space become a metaphor
for memory, culture, and life and death alluding to unseen forces and, ultimately, a lack of control. Using a combination of random and deliberate decisions, I aim to create a commentary about the unpredictable yet conformist aspects of the world in which we participate. / text
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UTEXAS/oai:repositories.lib.utexas.edu:2152/ETD-UT-2012-05-5344 |
| Date | 22 August 2012 |
| Creators | Payzant, Marcus Ray, 1982- |
| Source Sets | University of Texas |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | thesis |
| Format | application/pdf |
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