Presentation Type

Oral Presentation

Keywords

Painting, Mundane, Art, Everyday, Nostalgia

Department

Art and Art History

Major

Studio Art

Abstract

Pleasant domestic objects, patterns and colors provide backdrops for daily life. People feed off of colors that surround them, creating atmospheres. My work meditates on the individual’s relationship with the ordinary or mundane. There is a cultural understanding that artists communicate emotional content through figurate emotion or gestural paint application. My work demonstrates the emotionally informative power of mundane, domestic imagery by placing it on top of inexpressive figurative representation.

I primarily use oil paint and oil pastels to abstract domestic floral patterns. Images found on upholstery and clothing become symbols, masked or purely abstracted to inform a positive or caustic mood. I seek to represent through the abstractions how domestic patterns infiltrate the senses and influence moods as they are filtered and translated by the brain. The work places mundane imagery in the visual foreground to communicate their importance in daily life. Figures are buried beneath abstractions in order to subvert expectations of typical avenues of communicating emotion.

The painterly gestures and brushstrokes emphasize the individual piece’s energy, as well as, the nature of sensory intake before they are visually translated. Frenetic brushstrokes and thick applications of paint convey how the context of home life is used as a staging ground for domestic life’s events, emotions and movements.

My work depicts figures from my own life as well as imagery from my childhood couches and wallpaper. Each work serves as a way to communicate and navigate a range of feelings from hollowness to peaceful contentedness by creating harmonious or uncomfortable balances of foreground mundane imagery above figurative representations.

Faculty Mentor

Gretchen Batcheller

Funding Source or Research Program

Summer Undergraduate Research Program

Presentation Session

Session D

Location

Rockwell Academic Center 175

Start Date

3-4-2015 4:45 PM

End Date

3-4-2015 5:00 PM

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Apr 3rd, 4:45 PM Apr 3rd, 5:00 PM

Reveling in the Mundane

Rockwell Academic Center 175

Pleasant domestic objects, patterns and colors provide backdrops for daily life. People feed off of colors that surround them, creating atmospheres. My work meditates on the individual’s relationship with the ordinary or mundane. There is a cultural understanding that artists communicate emotional content through figurate emotion or gestural paint application. My work demonstrates the emotionally informative power of mundane, domestic imagery by placing it on top of inexpressive figurative representation.

I primarily use oil paint and oil pastels to abstract domestic floral patterns. Images found on upholstery and clothing become symbols, masked or purely abstracted to inform a positive or caustic mood. I seek to represent through the abstractions how domestic patterns infiltrate the senses and influence moods as they are filtered and translated by the brain. The work places mundane imagery in the visual foreground to communicate their importance in daily life. Figures are buried beneath abstractions in order to subvert expectations of typical avenues of communicating emotion.

The painterly gestures and brushstrokes emphasize the individual piece’s energy, as well as, the nature of sensory intake before they are visually translated. Frenetic brushstrokes and thick applications of paint convey how the context of home life is used as a staging ground for domestic life’s events, emotions and movements.

My work depicts figures from my own life as well as imagery from my childhood couches and wallpaper. Each work serves as a way to communicate and navigate a range of feelings from hollowness to peaceful contentedness by creating harmonious or uncomfortable balances of foreground mundane imagery above figurative representations.