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Thesis Info
- LABS ID
- 00042
- Thesis Title
- The Father in All of Us
- Author
- Lisa Nigro
- E-mail
- lisa AT drakaarts.org
- 2nd Author
- 3rd Author
- Degree
- MFA
- Year
- 1994
- Number of Pages
- 30
- University
- The University of Texas at Austin
- Thesis Supervisor
- Margo Sawyer
- Supervisor e-mail
- stevesculpt AT mail.utexas.edu
- Other Supervisor(s)
- Language(s) of Thesis
- English
- Department / Discipline
- Art/Sculpture
- Copyright Ownership
- Lisa Nigro
- Languages Familiar to Author
- English, some Spanish, French & Italian
- URL where full thesis can be found
- www.drakaarts.org/lisa_nigro.thesis.htm
- Keywords
- installation art, mixed media, interactive art, sculpture, feminist, gender issues
- Abstract: 200-500 words
- In artmaking, I focus specifically on sexuality and issues of gender because it is in these areas that I am able to twist the familiar male perspective into something that appears rather peculiar and unfamiliar. By using the polarities of sensual desire and repulsion in conjunction with transformations of the female figure, I attempt to draw the viewer into an experience of wanting and not wanting to look, feel, smell, or touch. Ambiguity, complexity, and controversy often serve as my three graces in this redefinition of woman. In confronting the problematics of patriarchal structure and challenging the myths of woman, I am allowing HER to exist as any-self, and aspire to acknowledge both the masculine and the feminine in all of us.