A written accompaniment to the thesis exhibition: The Studio, The Stage, The Salon.

摘要

The Studio, The Stage, The Salon, are dramatized sets that represent a synthesis of the work I have researched and produced throughout the M.F.A. program. The multiplicity of my art making practice and the existential identity of culture and self informs the production of meaning attributed to each piece. The common theoretical thread of embodiment establishes an open pattern of thought for each setting, and structures the methodological framework for this analysis.; I am making theoretical inquiries into: ethnology and embodiment; alchemy and mysticism; philosophies of art, beauty and the aesthetic encounter; mirror images and selfrepresentation; the art of seeing, working and knowing; art as object, subject and agent; semiotics; and positions for, open and against interpretation. I suspect that there is not one theory or category such as modernism, feminism or surrealism that weaves through my work but a blend of models that shifts with each piece. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)