the significance that cause and effect might have

Author

Sara FleenorFollow

Date of Award

Spring 5-2017

Author's School

Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Art

Author Department/Program

Graduate School of Art

Degree Name

Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Visual Art

Degree Type

Thesis

Abstract

Growing up in Dayton, Ohio in the 90’s, I witnessed the withdrawal of manufacturing giant, General Motors, and was witness to the cascading evisceration of manufacturing in the Midwest. This creation of the rust belt not only littered the landscape with the ruins of empty manufacturing facilities, but the collapsed economy also created a dearth of aspiration that gave traction to a rising heroin epidemic.

In my work, I depict middle America not with the bucolic sunlight of a mythical heartland, but with the illumination of industrial collapse.

Language

English (en)

Program Director

Patricia Olynyk

Program Director's Department

Graduate School of Art

Thesis Advisor

Buzz Spector

Committee Member

Buzz Spector

Committee Member

Buzz Spector

Committee Member

Andréa Stanislav

Committee Member

Monika Weiss

Artist's Statement

Permanent URL: https://doi.org/10.7936/K7FT8JHX

Recommended Citation

Fleenor, Sara, "the significance that cause and effect might have" (2017). Graduate School of Art Theses. ETD 78. https://doi.org/10.7936/K7FT8JHX.
https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/samfox_art_etds/78