Date of Award
Spring 5-2014
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
M.F.A.
Degree Program
Fine Arts
Department
Fine Arts
Major Professor
Cheryl Hayes
Second Advisor
Jim Richard
Third Advisor
Kathy Rodriguez
Abstract
My work in painting and sculpture is an ongoing problem-solving activity in which the issues of how to present images or objects, and how to make a compelling piece of art, frequently clash. By combining a sense of earnestness in the means in which my work is made with self-conscious and deliberately awkward choices, my work occupies a place between pleasureful, visual abandon and the calculated, humorously abject. Through combinations of disparate elements, formal choices, and attitudes towards subject matter, I am making work that seeks to create new images within contradictions.
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Recommended Citation
Hoffman, Peter, "Willful Misinterpretation" (2014). University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations. 1810.
https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1810
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