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
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.