Date of Award
8-8-2017
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
Department
Art and Design
First Advisor
Matthew Sugarman, MFA
Second Advisor
John Decker, PhD
Third Advisor
Craig Drennen, MFA
Fourth Advisor
Christina West, MFA
Abstract
In the narrative painting series Discount Meat, I employ grotesque realism to emphasize the rupture of corporeal and social boundaries, reframing the body as a site of discontinuity whose physical and perceptual structures are in constant flux. Through this approach, I synthesize fragments of lived and observed experience into invented narratives with an emphasis on embodiment. By emphasizing the apertures connecting the body’s interior with the outside world, I seek to problematize the image of a discrete self, suggesting instability as a central element of physical identity. Across this web of disjointed narratives, I strive to portray the emotional range and complexity of human experience in terms of vivid physicality, depicting tedium and pain while allowing space in the work for levity and imagination.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.57709/10340774
Recommended Citation
Ford, Larkin H., "Discount Meat." Thesis, Georgia State University, 2017.
doi: https://doi.org/10.57709/10340774