Degree Name

MFA (Master of Fine Arts)

Program

Art

Date of Award

5-2016

Committee Chair or Co-Chairs

Mike Smith

Committee Members

Ralph Slatton, Scott Contreras-Koterbay

Abstract

The photographer discusses the work in Elsewhere, her Master of Fine Arts exhibition held at East Tennessee State University in the Reece Museum, located in Johnson City, Tennessee. The exhibition is displayed from March 1 through March 31, 2016 and consists of 17 color photographs and 3 videos representing a body of work that visually communicates the photographer’s interest in transient lifestyles.

The influence and research regarding the concept is communicated by a focus on artists, literature and art historical knowledge that pertain to Law’s work. The artists included are Rineke Dijkstra, Jocelyn Lee, Lise Sarfati, Stephen Shore, Robert Frank, Rania Matar, Gregory Crewdson, and Walker Evans, as well as Edward Hopper, Lucian Freud, and Rachel Whiteread, and the poet Charles Baudelaire, among other writers referenced and other topics concerning aesthetics of travel and space.

Images of the photographer’s work and a catalogue of the exhibition is included.

Document Type

Thesis - unrestricted

Copyright

Copyright by the authors.

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