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A Blue Existence: The Agency of Artmaking on Memory, Womanhood, and Identity

Maas, Jailei Elizabeth
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1714058556241247

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2024, Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA), Ohio University, Studio Art.
The field of figurative painting is a longstanding mode by which the human body can be imagined, remembered, and chronicled through color and form. Art made about the body is a visceral way for artists to explore the problems, and joys, that unites us, as humans, regardless of time period, language, or place of origin. I seek to understand why humans connect and communicate expressively, and how this manifests in interdisciplinary art forms, by researching and creating artwork surrounding the conceptual dialogue of how memory and sense of place work to form one’s identity. I use arbitrary color in the form of the color blue in order to communicate messages of emotion and reverence towards my subjects, as well as a plethora of found materials applied to my paintings which ground my figures in imbued meaning. As a painter and art historian, I am interested in how this conceptual framework is reckoned with in the context of gender by women artists. I am principally guided by the work of Luchita Hurtado, a Venezuelan painter who only received recognition for her extensive portfolio of self-portraits in domestic and natural spaces as a nonagenarian. Other artists explored include Judy Chicago, Tiffany Alfonseca, Clemencia Lucena. The development of this thesis project will be twofold. The project will develop as both a critical analysis through academic writing on the subject as well as demonstrations of creative research with the development of a painting portfolio. I will exhibit this portfolio at the Ohio University BFA Thesis Exhibition in April 2024.
David LaPalombara (Advisor)
42 p.
Fine Arts
Painting; Women; Sewing; Female Gaze; Latin American Art; Luchita Hurtado; Indigo Dye; Figure Painting

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  • Maas, J. E. (2024). A Blue Existence: The Agency of Artmaking on Memory, Womanhood, and Identity [Undergraduate thesis, Ohio University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1714058556241247

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Maas, Jailei. A Blue Existence: The Agency of Artmaking on Memory, Womanhood, and Identity. 2024. Ohio University, Undergraduate thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1714058556241247.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Maas, Jailei. "A Blue Existence: The Agency of Artmaking on Memory, Womanhood, and Identity." Undergraduate thesis, Ohio University, 2024. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1714058556241247

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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