Date of Award
Spring 5-19-2017
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Visual Art
Degree Type
Thesis
Abstract
The nature of experience is ephemeral, but drawing is a permanent record of change that can serve to concretize it. Drawing is about concentration, memory and failure, and it enables a depth of seeing. In my work, through drawing, collecting, and arranging, I struggle to store time and set an image against the tide of inevitable and constant change. The lens which I take is that of the fragment: the preeminent form, normative and unavoidable, which enables the distillation of personal narrative and memory in a way that speaks to the universal nature of existence. My analysis is built upon the text of Hans-Jost Frey's Interruptions, William Tronzo’s The Fragment: An Incomplete History, and Rebecca Solnit’s essay, written for Once Removed. At the same time that I provide a theoretical and contextual framework for my artwork, I show through the writing and theories of John Berger, James Elkins, and Simon Downs that drawing, as a process, relies upon this concept of fragmentation to offer the meaning that it does.
Language
English (en)
Program Director
Patricia Olynyk
Program Director's Department
Graduate School of Art
Thesis Advisor
Richard Krueger
Committee Member
Lisa Bulawsky
Committee Member
Lisa Bulawsky
Committee Member
Jan Tumlir
Committee Member
Monika Weiss
Recommended Citation
Meredith, Whitney, "A Catalogue of Thoughts" (2017). Graduate School of Art Theses. ETD 86. https://doi.org/10.7936/K7NG4P33.
https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/samfox_art_etds/86
Artist's Statement
www.whitneymeredith.com
Permanent URL: https://doi.org/10.7936/K7NG4P33