Author

Brett Herron

Date of Graduation

2016

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Type

MFA

College

College of Creative Arts

Department

Graphic Design

Committee Chair

Joseph Lupo

Committee Co-Chair

Jason Lee

Committee Member

Kofi Opoku

Committee Member

Michael Sherwin

Abstract

My MFA written thesis addresses work completed and shown in a thesis exhibition at West Virginia University as well as significant influences to my studio process. While my focus is printmaking, the work presented in the exhibition consists of several sculptural and photographic pieces. This thesis, along with the supporting exhibition, will address my investigations into extending Minimalism's anonymity and relational aesthetics while adhering to my own predetermined artistic parameters. The work is concerned with observed form and composition along with the transformation of mundane and knowable materials into uncertain sculptures that highlight their physical properties. I emphasize the material presence and spatial ambiguities of the work, while rejecting the conventions of sculpture and painting as mainstays of artistic production.

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