Detail View: Art and Art History Student Work:

Image File Name: 
vrc_20220826_059
Image Record ID: 
aahi0022961
Work Title (display): 
MFA thesis exhibition: All at Once: Playing Pretend, Making Sense
Image Title: 
installation view
Work Description: 
Artist statement: All At Once: Playing Pretend, Making Sense refers to the experience of viewing a dollhouse or miniature. The objects scattered throughout the exhibition represent mundane items often found in the home. Some objects retain familiarity, recalling toys children use to make sense of the world, while others are abstract or unknown, plucked from distorted memories. My color palette references brightly flushed Polly Pocket toy compacts and the glowing, flat illustrations depicted in the children’s book Goodnight Moon. Alongside these saturated colors, a parallel palette seen in the stained porcelain, is naturally more washed out, like a forgotten plastic toy left out in the sun, slowly bleached of its color. // My installation considers the bombardment and piling up of problems that face us each day ranging in consequence. The accumulation and proximity of objects in this installation make meaning, all at once. I’m curious about the tension in the moments just before everything perfect dissolves, or crumbles, or gets swept away. I employ many methods to tack things down, to hold onto moments, and to also release my grip.
Work Dates (display): 
2022
Work Dates type: 
creation
Work Creator (display): 
Katie McColgan (American, born 1994)
Work Creator gender: 
female
Work Creator notes (display): 
Written thesis: https://scholar.colorado.edu/concern/graduate_thesis_or_dissertations/1c18dh18m
Work Creator UCB affiliation (display): 
2022 MFA exhibition, Art and Art History
Work Subject: 
domesticity
Work Subject: 
childhood
Work Subject: 
memory
Work Subject: 
comfort (sensation)
Work Subject: 
collecting
Work Subject: 
abstraction
Work Subject: 
color
Work Subject: 
miniature (size attribute)
Work Subject: 
toys (recreational artifacts)
Work Subject: 
play (recreation)
Work Subject: 
repetition (artistic concept)
Work Worktype: 
installations (exhibitions)
Work Worktype: 
sculpture (visual works)
Work Category (VRC classification): 
exhibitions
Work Category (VRC classification): 
sculptures and installations
Work Measurements (display): 
dimensions variable
Image Rights (display): 
© Katie McColgan
Work Rights (display): 
© Katie McColgan
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Holding Institution: 
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Collection: 
Art and Art History Visual Resources Center
Subcollection: 
Art and Art History Student Work Archive
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