Date of Award
Spring 5-17-2018
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Visual Art
Degree Type
Thesis
Abstract
I am interested in searching for images of women that have not been adequately represented in visual art. As a visual artist, I am directed by my sense of sight to investigate and know something. I like to challenge myself to visualize things that do not already have a visual representation. It has been frustrating for me to create images of women, and I have experienced a deep ambivalence in response to the different images of women I have encountered. The socially and culturally constructed images of women that I have internalized and those that have developed from my own experience of being a woman do not coincide. Images derived from the concept of woman as a symbol of beauty and sexuality are images I have culturally assimilated as a result of growing up in a patriarchal society. However, images representing a female identity developed from my experience, from childhood to adolescence to womanhood, do not correspond with the images that have been forced upon me. This conflict undermines my knowledge of “woman” and transfers it into the unknown. This conflict evokes anxiety and fear as I confront that unknown.
Language
English (en)
Program Director
Patricia Olynyk
Program Director's Department
Graduate School of Art
Thesis Advisor
Monika Weiss
Studio/Primary Advisor
Jamie Adams
Studio/Primary Advisor
Heather Bennett
Committee Member
Michael Byron
Committee Member
Michael Byron
Recommended Citation
Park, Song, "Strange Woods" (2018). Graduate School of Art Theses. ETD 99. https://doi.org/10.7936/K7W095CQ.
https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/samfox_art_etds/99
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Artist's Statement
Permanent URL: https://doi.org/10.7936/K7W095CQ