COLLECTION NAME:
Graduate Thesis Collection
Record
Title:
A Tale of Two Bridges
Creator:
Mosholder, Megan C.
Subject:
Thesis (M.F.A.) -- Painting
Subject:
Savannah College of Art and Design -- Department of Painting
Rights:
Copyright is retained by the authors or artists of items in this collection, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Abstract:
This site specific multi-media and multi-dimensional work explores the way that lines act as
directives, directions, bridges, borders, points of inclusion or exclusion, and demarcations of
human action and inaction. Influenced by the work of Teresita Fernandez, Robert Smithson,
Richard Serra, and Eva Hesse, it builds upon my past interest in the use of lines in space as part
of painting and installation, connecting interior with exterior, symbolic with lived experience. It
draws upon the implications, suggested forms, and symbolism of a new bridge and its “shadow
bridge”, the ruin of skeletal pylons still in place alongside. Starting with the notion of the bridge
form as a singular connecting line, it is a visual inquiry of the dialogue that the “two” bridges
represent: a dialogue implied but not as often voiced, including historical conversations about
race and power as well as the more current social and political conditions.
directives, directions, bridges, borders, points of inclusion or exclusion, and demarcations of
human action and inaction. Influenced by the work of Teresita Fernandez, Robert Smithson,
Richard Serra, and Eva Hesse, it builds upon my past interest in the use of lines in space as part
of painting and installation, connecting interior with exterior, symbolic with lived experience. It
draws upon the implications, suggested forms, and symbolism of a new bridge and its “shadow
bridge”, the ruin of skeletal pylons still in place alongside. Starting with the notion of the bridge
form as a singular connecting line, it is a visual inquiry of the dialogue that the “two” bridges
represent: a dialogue implied but not as often voiced, including historical conversations about
race and power as well as the more current social and political conditions.
Publisher:
Savannah, Georgia : Savannah College of Art and Design
Date:
2012-11
Format:
PDF: 47 p. : ill