Unfixing agency
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Date
2015-04Author
Niebur, Rachel
Publisher
University of Wisconsin--Stout. Research Services
Advisor(s)
Fichter, Amy
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Show full item recordAbstract
In my work, I strive to combine conceptual bricolage and drawing
by using different and sometimes unrelated ideas and systems that I possess
to create drawings. This often requires calling upon physical objects and
subjects that surround me for information. In addition, each drawing must
involve some conceptual element relating to the one that preceded it. This
requires me to examine what I know, and additionally what I would like to
know in relationship to the drawings I make. Ultimately, this system of conceptual
tinkering provides the agency for me to make a drawing. As a result
of this process, my drawings can be seen as a series of investigations that
lead to one another and that can be viewed in chronological order.
Often the compositions employ layers of information that are results of this
process of putting things together. While the subject matter is abstracted,
figurative and architectural forms are sometimes evident in relationship
to the concepts being transposed, melded, or merged. The bricolage of
concepts in these pieces is also parodied in arbitrary drawn connections
between abstracted sections and forms made in the pieces. These arbitrary
connections, along with the layering of conceptual investigation, result in
dense or dispersed conceptual explorations, and atmospheric networks of
arbitrary connections.
Subject
art and design
studio art
Permanent Link
http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1793/77565Description
Artist statements and photographs of artist's works.
Citation
Niebur, R. (2015). Unfixing agency. University of Wisconsin-Stout Journal of Student Research, 14, 292-296.