Flat Space: Reflections on the Senior Induvidualized Project
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Authors
Shuster-Tucker, Sarah
Issue Date
2008
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Thesis
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en_US
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Since before I was aware of the fascination it held for me, the idea of confusing
perceptions of space in rendered images has influenced my art. I realize in retrospect that most
of the drawings, paintings, and sculptures that I have made in the past four years have related
to this idea in some way. Working through these ideas in class, drawing inspiration from art
revealed to me through the New York Arts Program, and drawing on the knowledge of
theoretical concepts of modernism and postmodernism that I gained during my senior year has
led me to the body of work that I created for my Senior Individualized Project. In this paper I
will discuss the relevance of those many sources of inspiration and the significance of the
trompe l'oeil style in my work, as well as explain the concept of my project in the context of
modernism. The paintings of my SIP began as an attempt to disprove the modernist tenet of
purity of the medium, and more specifically, to challenge Clement Greenberg's notion that
painting and sculpture are mutually exclusive, and are inherently two-dimensional and three-dimension,
respectively. My initial goal was to create a collection of paintings that could be
viewed as both two-and three-dimensional simultaneously, and which might be categorized as
painting but could potentially create the experience of physical interaction between the viewer
and the art object in the way that sculpture does. Ultimately, the subject matter of the
collection addresses both the goal of creating dimensional indefiniteness and at the same time
introduces a critique of modernism by calling attention to the context of modern art, the white
cube, and to its definitive limits. Each piece is a tautology that calls to question the nature of the space surrounding it, the effect that the space has on the art, and the way that both art and
viewing space affect the viewer.
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