Date of Award
Winter 12-2022
Document Type
Thesis
College
College of Visual and Performing Arts
Degree Program
Fine Arts
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts
Thesis Advisor
Stephanie Sutton
Committee Member
Alice Burmeister
Committee Member
Myles Calvert
Keywords
Queer, Queer Art, Painting, Studio Art, Abstract Art, MFA, Fine Art
Committee Member
Shaun Cassidy
Abstract
Elevating the Queer Body is an art based exploration in removing objectification in the visual consumption of my own queer body. Throughout this thesis, I explain the experience of queer objectification, and how to overcome it through abstraction in a painting practice. This research comprises spiritual ideologies, as well as the history of abstraction, to inspire me in creating an ethically consumed representation of my figure. This is achieved through an abstract depiction and veiling of my figure. Presented compositions are overlaid with Islamic inspired devotion and ornamentation as a form of elevating the body itself.
Recommended Citation
Mahan, Grant, "Elevating the Queer Body" (2022). Graduate Theses. 141.
https://digitalcommons.winthrop.edu/graduatetheses/141
