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Still Wet: On Painting, Presence, Pleasure, and You

Shabtay, Talia Bess
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1250699054

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2009, Master of Fine Arts, Ohio State University, Art.
I make paintings that appeal to the mind and stick to the eye. Thepaintings use text that has been borrowed from popular culture, advertising, and film as their subject. My most recent body of work functions as a footbridge between looking at and being seen, painting and life. The footbridge is not derived from any one set of architectural blueprints, but rather generates its form from within. At times the bridge is formless, an evaporating cloud, or bottomless black. The act of painting transforms the text; image and form merge into presence. The subject is no longer simply borrowed text, but somehow the viewers, the artist, the materials, are absorbed like oil into cloth and seduced into subjects. The junction where painting touches without moving its location in space is the junction that I find most remarkable; furthermore, it is the place in time from which my marks and remarks are generated.
Pheoris West (Advisor)
Alison Crocetta (Committee Member)
Laura Lisbon (Committee Member)
Art Education; Art History; Fine Arts
painting; presence; pleasure; vignette; visible; flicker; language; image

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  • Shabtay, T. B. (2009). Still Wet: On Painting, Presence, Pleasure, and You [Master's thesis, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1250699054

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Shabtay, Talia. Still Wet: On Painting, Presence, Pleasure, and You. 2009. Ohio State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1250699054.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Shabtay, Talia. "Still Wet: On Painting, Presence, Pleasure, and You." Master's thesis, Ohio State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1250699054

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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