Detail View: Art and Art History Student Work:
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Image File Name:
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vrc_20200327_073
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Image Record ID:
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aahi0019840
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Work Title (display):
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Untitled
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Image Title:
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full view
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Work Description:
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Thesis abstract: My work comes, most basically, from attempting to give form, mass, shape, color, and texture to unformed or partially formed ideas and non-verbal thoughts. For this reason, my work is abstract. The works in this exhibition come, more specifically, from thinking about the body. They grew out of lengthy musings, curiosities, fears, and even paranoias about the way that our bodies function and misfunction. They attempt to make tangible a simultaneous strength and fragility, beauty and awkwardness, motion and stillness. // With my work, I suggest aspects of the body, but do not attempt to create a realistic impression of them. My reasons for abstraction are two-fold. A form that cannot be readily identified or named suspends us in a state of limbo. It is only when our reason and intellect fail us, that we surrender to a more intuitive and visceral response. This place of not knowing is antithetical to what we are taught to value, but allows us to interact with the work on a more instinctual level. H we cannot find the answer, we are forced to follow our gut instead of our head. The pace of perception is slowed, the resulting predicament complex. It is a complexity that mirrors the emotional content of my work and allows the sculptures to simultaneously suggest a wide range of sentiments and interpretations. // My thesis exhibition, entitled Intrinsic, consists of three main bodies of work. Each body of work investigates a different imagined aspect of the diseased, fragmented or damaged body. I am interested in the way that the title implies the body without specifically relating to it. While the most common definition refers to an innate or essential quality, a more specialized meaning uses intrinsic to describe specific characteristics of an organ or tissue type. The works in this exhibition are meant to function in the same way. While some pieces may not reference the body immediately, closer investigation hints at anatomical origins.
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Work Dates (display):
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1997
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Work Dates type:
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creation
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Work Creator (display):
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Sarah Spencer White (American, active ca. 1991 to present)
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Work Creator gender:
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female
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Work Creator notes (display):
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Written thesis: https://scholar.colorado.edu/concern/graduate_thesis_or_dissertations/1544bq479
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Work Creator UCB affiliation (display):
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MFA 1997, Art and Art History
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Work Subject:
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body parts
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Work Subject:
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body autonomy
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Work Subject:
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abstraction
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Work Subject:
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illness
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Work Subject:
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autobiography
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Work Subject:
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medicine (discipline)
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Work Worktype:
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mixed media
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Work Worktype:
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sculpture (visual works)
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Work Worktype:
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installations (visual works)
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Work Category (VRC classification):
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sculptures and installations
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Image Rights (display):
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© Sarah Spencer
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Work Rights (display):
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© Sarah Spencer
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Holding Institution:
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University of Colorado Boulder
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Collection:
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Art and Art History Visual Resources Center
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Subcollection:
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Art and Art History Student Work Archive
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Collection info and contact:
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