Jack Wilson MFA Thesis 2014: Chasing The Unicorn

Author

Jack T. Wilson, Claremont Graduate UniversityFollow

Date of Award

Spring 5-17-2014

Degree Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Fine Arts (MFA)

Department

Art

First Advisor

David Amico

Second Advisor

Michael Reafsnyder

Third Advisor

John Millei

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Rights Information

© 2014 John Wilson

Abstract

More than anything, my art practice is about overcoming the proclivity to collude with stagnation. Somewhere in the middle of the endless pugilistic battle between consciousness and unconsciousness lies my work, positioned in between the tension of the known and the unknown. The line and the absence of it. The edge and the center. Instinctively, we surround the unknown/other with fear. When encountering a dark shape lying in my path, I automatically jump. The stick might be a snake. Although my survival mechanisms have built walls between the light and the dark, through my work I wish to illuminate things and spaces that were previously unknown to me. Guided by the concept of growth, my work is an emotional response to a designed reality.

Link To Artist's Gallery

http://scholarship.claremont.edu/jwilson_mfate

Recommended Citation

Wilson, Jack T., "Jack Wilson MFA Thesis 2014: Chasing The Unicorn" (2014). CGU MFA Theses. 97.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgu_mfatheses/97