MFA Thesis Exhibition
Design is at the root of all art and of all making. All aspects of the installations and objects I present to an audience are deeply considered for the sole purpose of interaction, including the movement through the space and slight variations in material. I use familiar items, such as a pair of glasses or coveralls, to assist the viewer in taking proper action, and I specifically consider the space around and within an installation to allow for a single viewer or multiple viewers to interact with an object or space at any one time. It is important for me to visualize the experience before it takes place and design a space that facilitates said interaction because it is often difficult to accomplish.
The environments I create are highly conceptual, and the viewer’s experience of them is often a visceral reaction rather than an intellectual understanding. In this way, the installations’ abstractness is read as an “inwardness” that can only be understood through the viewer’s own body.
installation, performance, mixed media
Date:
April 20, 2014
