It’s Not Adding Up
It’s Not Adding up is My MFA thesis work. It was installed in the Ewing Gallery of Art + Architecture at the University of Tennessee Knoxville, March 26th - April 5th 2021.
It is a body of work is looking for answers but ends up being more comfortable with questions. The exhibition is a warning against certainty and trust in systems, a call to bring a skeptical eye to neat and tidy solutions, and an invitation to collectively question the culture. If, as Albert Camus suggests, “beginning to think is beginning to be undermined,” then this work is designed to undermine itself in order to continue to build understanding. Context and process are more important than conclusions. It’s Not Adding Up because it will never add up.
It’s Not Adding Up - collagraph, lasercut collage, graphite, peeled paper, marker, 44.5 x 60 inches
There’s a System Here - collagraph, 44.5 x 30 inches
Divvied Up - intaglio, woven paper, 24 x 36 Inches
Scheme - color pencil, peeled paper, collage, 44.5 x 30 inches
That’s Your Opinion - collage, peeled paper, color pencil, marker, 44.5 x 30 inches
The General State of Things - collage, woven paper, 44.5 x 30 inches
It Was Steel Town - etched oxidized steel , 24 x 36 inches
A District - Etched oxidized copper, 30 x 44.5 inches
Everything is Dumb When You Look Close Enough - lasercut, color pencil, 21 x 30 inches
Top: The Point -collage, screenprint, 15 x 12 inches Bottom: Watershed - Intaglio, color pencil, marker, 13.5 x 23 inches
They Don’t Make Them Like That Anymore, - collagraph, screenprint, 15 x 12 inches
The Golden Triangle - collagraph screenprint, embossment, peeled paper, graphite, 30 x 44.5 Inches
Thousand Year Old Stew - collagraph, 30 x 22 inches
Fixed it - collage, peeled paper, poplar 28 x 16 inches
Installation and detail shots
