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Cat Ciccolo: Thesis (Art) Work

Massachusetts College of Art and Design: MSAE

Crab Prints

Labels: printing, studio work
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Why Blog?

Process! My intent is to record much of the thinking, planning, and creating done for my thesis exhibition. I will use this forum as a place to invite collaboration, store digital images and keep track of what I have done and am currently working on.

Layered Intentions

My work comes from an interest in perception, contradiction and translation. Through relief printmaking I discover and alter patterns from familiar imagery. By taking one idea and turning it into many, I create seemingly identical, but slightly altered, complicated, and purposefully concealed images.

I am always looking for the next temporary answer to the dynamic, self-induced challenge: Within a planned environment, how will one creative approach spawn the next related, yet different approach? Looking to both complicate and clarify my allure for the mundane, each finished piece represents an idea in process. As a result, each piece counts on the work before to directly inform what comes next.

Artist Quick-Links

  • Bridget Riley (abstract pattern, repetition)
  • Charles Sheeler (exact, graphic)
  • Daido Moriyama (photo, pattern, contrast)
  • Daniel Buren (stripes, boundaries)
  • Ed Ruscha (square, repetition, mixed media)
  • Edward Wadsworth (b&w, stripe, pattern)
  • Jessica Smith (fabric, everyday)
  • Jim Dine (woodcut, slightly abstract)
  • Katja Strunz (shadows, wall sculpture)
  • Magdalene Odundo (traditional, hand-built)
  • Nicola Lopez (woodcut, physicality, installation)
  • Sol LeWitt (lines, repetition)
  • Sybil Andrews (printmaking, modern)
  • Tara Donovan (everyday, multiple solutions)
  • Yuko Nishimura (pattern, repetition, relief)

Works Cited Quick-Links

  • America, My Brother, My Blood
  • Art and Fear
  • By Hand: The Use of Craft in Contemporary Art
  • Daniel Buren: Eye of the Storm
  • Ed Ruscha
  • Hatch Show Print: The History of a Great American Poster Shop
  • Henri Cartier-Bresson: Photographer
  • Kathe Kollwitz: Woman and Artist
  • Katja Strunz
  • Mexican Tiles: Color, Style, Design
  • Prints and Drawings of Kathe Kollwitz
  • Rhythms of Modern Life
  • The Printmaking Bible
  • Vitamin D: New Perspectives in Drawing

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