Date of Award
Spring 5-18-2018
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Visual Art
Degree Type
Thesis
Abstract
My work performs as a navigation around and through the margins of the physical and the immanent. Using the American West as a backdrop, I ground the position of my works in the histories and mythologies of new frontiers. I am sensitive to immanence, and find myself drawn to objects that appear to exist in the margins. To trust these objects is to choose a position, to give meaning to these imminent objects is my inclination. To express what I am trying to understand, of these moments of interactions with the marginal, requires the development of a language. These moments become points of orientation, and the work that develops become a map. This map is formed by objects that I produce and put out to the world, without requiring a specific place or time to exist, but to go to where they belong, which is left to be known. I consider the possibility that these works fall into the margins of time, between conscious moments, and flow through a stream of timelessness. I consider the following text to be an extension of my studio practice in how I have, and continue to develop symbolic meaning.
Language
English (en)
Program Director
Patricia Olynyk
Program Director's Department
Graduate School of Art
Thesis Advisor
Buzz Spector
Studio/Primary Advisor
Zlatko Cosic
Committee Member
Jessica Baran
Committee Member
Jessica Baran
Recommended Citation
Young, Jon, "Across the Line (Mapping the Margins)" (2018). Graduate School of Art Theses. ETD 100. https://doi.org/10.7936/K7W37VR6.
https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/samfox_art_etds/100
Artist's Statement
Permanent URL: https://doi.org/10.7936/K7W37VR6