Type
Text
Type
Thesis
Advisor
Buonagurio, Toby | Thompson, Roger | Dinkins, Stephanie.
Date
2016-12-01
Keywords
Studio Arts | Fine arts
Department
Department of Studio Art
Language
en_US
Source
This work is sponsored by the Stony Brook University Graduate School in compliance with the requirements for completion of degree.
Identifier
http://hdl.handle.net/11401/76835
Publisher
The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY.
Format
application/pdf
Abstract
For the past three years, while an MFA student at Stony Brook University, I have pursued an intense study of sculptural work in the medium of ceramic. My goal was to create large-scale ceramic installations. Theses installations comprised of many ceramic pieces I meticulously sculpted and carved to reference the fragility, beauty and finite existence of the human body as it relates to earthly landscapes. My aim has been to imbue an exhibition space with a sense of reference and ambiguity, allowing the viewer of the large scaled installed work to experience the work independent of direction. I deliberately and painstakingly construct my sculptures to look as if they came from the earth, that is, wood that has been weathered, stone-like fossils that show debris and pigment, aged bone, visual evidence of their time on earth. | 26 pages
Recommended Citation
Cruce, Heather Marie, "Excavation" (2016). Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions). 2711.
https://commons.library.stonybrook.edu/stony-brook-theses-and-dissertations-collection/2711