Temporary Shelter

Author

Renae Barnard, Claremont Graduate UniversityFollow

Date of Award

Spring 5-16-2015

Degree Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Fine Arts (MFA)

Department

Art

First Advisor

Rachel Lachowicz

Second Advisor

David Amico

Third Advisor

Anne Bray

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Rights Information

© 2015 Renae Barnard

Abstract

My work considers the ways in which gender performance, desire and objectification are inter-related through power structures. I’m interested in indulging in the pleasure and tactility of making while exploring the network of interactions between perception, time and the inadequacy of language.

Many of my sculptures are worked within inches of collapse and reflect my attraction to the imperfect and the aged. These folded, twisted, and sewn objects are both destroyed by and reinforced with the repetitive gestures by which they are made. These works wrestle with demonstrations of femininity and normative methods of valuation while investigating concerns like anxiety, vulnerability, seduction and loss of control.

Recommended Citation

Barnard, Renae, "Temporary Shelter" (2015). CGU MFA Theses. 109.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgu_mfatheses/109