Showcase of Undergraduate Research and Creative Endeavors (SOURCE)

Framing Memory

Framing Memory explores the home through painting, printmaking, and sculpture. It visually discusses my relationships with household objects and domestic space. While appreciating my childhood home, I developed physical and conceptual connections in the work by creating complex compositions on paper and wood. This exhibition displays these ideas both two and three-dimensionally. Painting and printing have allowed me to work realistically and abstractly to understand the connections I have with objects such as bedposts, doorknobs, and other household items. The viewer will recognize similarities between these works on paper and panel. Placing Shadows, a multi-layered screenprint, highlights my personal bed’s wooden posts as well as my window’s sheer curtains. For most, a bedpost is simply an aesthetic addition to a bedroom, but it is symbolic of years of childhood memory and nostalgia. Imagery such as the bedpost and curtains are found in my paintings as well, and these pieces were intuitively and simultaneously worked on. Sculpturally, these ideas take form through a variety of hand-built boxes. The box serves as an object that abstracts the interior and exterior spaces of the home. When viewing the work, there are multiple sizes of boxes representing different rooms and spaces that are important to my childhood memory. Each box can be appreciated independently while visually speaking to its neighboring box. The wood boxes have been painted and screen printed on with imagery seen in the two-dimensional work. Framing Memory encompasses the deeply personal relationships we have with our homes and the objects inside.