Presentation Title
P-03 Horizons
Presenter Status
Associate Professor of Art, VACD
Preferred Session
Poster Session
Location
Buller Hall Hallways
Start Date
22-10-2021 2:00 PM
End Date
22-10-2021 3:00 PM
Presentation Abstract
The series Horizons is an ongoing body of work that examines a meditation on landscape and the concept of place. My focus on this subject is based on imagery of coastlines, expansive skies, and personally significant locations and how they contribute to my current sense of place. I lived in Florida as a teenager, which is congested, hot, thick, quickly and constantly moving with beaches that often brimmed with tourists and crowds. The Midwest is smaller, spread out, slower, cooler and more reserved in both culture and energy. The connection I find between the two places is the similarity in the effect of great bodies of water, the ocean and Lake Michigan, on the atmosphere and the landscape. The question, “where is my place” has inundated my consciousness within all areas of life, including relationships, career, spirituality, politics, and artistic practice. The horizon and skies were a constant, especially above the ocean. These locations and universal horizons in my work reference somewhere and anywhere while being painted in a way that is both realistic yet simplified.
P-03 Horizons
Buller Hall Hallways
The series Horizons is an ongoing body of work that examines a meditation on landscape and the concept of place. My focus on this subject is based on imagery of coastlines, expansive skies, and personally significant locations and how they contribute to my current sense of place. I lived in Florida as a teenager, which is congested, hot, thick, quickly and constantly moving with beaches that often brimmed with tourists and crowds. The Midwest is smaller, spread out, slower, cooler and more reserved in both culture and energy. The connection I find between the two places is the similarity in the effect of great bodies of water, the ocean and Lake Michigan, on the atmosphere and the landscape. The question, “where is my place” has inundated my consciousness within all areas of life, including relationships, career, spirituality, politics, and artistic practice. The horizon and skies were a constant, especially above the ocean. These locations and universal horizons in my work reference somewhere and anywhere while being painted in a way that is both realistic yet simplified.
Acknowledgments
Office of Research and Creative Practice