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Ruminate Ruminate

Violet L. Goode Minnesota State University - Mankato

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Ruminate

By

Violet Love Goode

A Thesis Submitted in Partial

Fulfillment of the Requirements

For the Degree

Master of Arts

In

Ceramic Art

Minnesota State University, Mankato

Mankato, Minnesota

May 2013

Violet Love Goode

Artist Statement

My work stems from a ferocious curiosity about the everyday object from the household, the

found, and the discarded. It is within these objects meaning that I aim to explore the value

society places on them as a whole. Central to my thought process are ideas of consumption

and excess, what we chose to regard as compared to what we chose to throw away. Many of

the objects are passive participants in our lives and by resurrecting them I hope to call attention

and question this system of hierarchy.

My process involves taking cues from a wide array of influences ranging from antiquity to

popular culture. The objects themselves range from scraps salvaged from the studio floor, slip

cast and burn-out pieces, hand built, thrown parts, to objects found at thrift stores. They hint

not only to the newly manufactured and quickly discarded products of society but also to the

nostalgic left overs of time passed. By building up an accumulation of visual information I

distract from their original qualities allowing for ideas of excess and consumption to take over.

Compositionally the works hint of underlying decay and ugliness but also have grandeur

opulence about them. I am interested in the nature of the autonomous, decorative object and

the work intuitively often with obsessive persistence to fully explore an idea.

As part of my work I often use animals as a way to symbolically call attention to my own

thoughts on what I chose to consume and to highlight this inherent hypocrisy that exists in all

of us. The work is not meant to act as a moral compass but rather is meant to call attention to

the ways in which we over sentimentalize the animal form to keep from thinking about our

human assault on it. I set out to explore the connections between our understandings of

animals and the cultural conditions in which these understandings have been formed.

This brochure is submitted to the College

of Graduate Studies in partial fulfillment

of the requirements for the Master of Arts

Degree.

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Ruminate By Violet Love Goode

Master of Arts-Ceramics Thesis Exhibition

March 4th-8th Opening Reception March 4th

7-9pm Conkling Gallery, Nelson Hall

Minnesota State University, Mankato

Violet Love Goode 149b James Ave Mankato, MN 56001

Violetlove26@hotmail.com https://www.facebook.com/violetlove

>Education:

2011-2013 MA-Ceramics, Minnesota State University, Mankato

2002-2006 BFA-Ceramics, Wichita State University, Wichita Kansas

>Recent Exhibitions:

2013 Co-lab, Pk Gallery, Mankato, Minnesota

2013 Master of Arts Thesis Exhibition, Conkling Gallery, Minnesota State University, Mankato, Minnesota

2013 National Council Education Ceramic Arts (NCECA), National Student Juried Exhibition, Glassell School of Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Huston, Texas

2012 Dre Day! Benefit Art Show & Auction, 410 Project Gallery, Mankato, Minnesota

2012 Halloween Show, 410 Project Gallery, Mankato, Minnesota

2012 Scopophilia, Student Art League Annual Juried Exhibition, Conkling Gallery, Mankato, Minnesota

Violet Love Goode Artist Statement

My work stems from a ferocious curiosity about the everyday object from the household, the found, and the discarded. It is within these objects meaning that I aim to explore the value society places on them as a whole. Central to my thought process are ideas of consumption and excess, what we chose to regard as compared to what we chose to throw away. Many of the objects are passive participants in our lives and by resurrecting them I hope to call attention and question this system of hierarchy.

As part of my work I often use animals as a way to symbolically call attention to my own thoughts on what I chose to consume and to highlight this inherent hypocrisy that exists in all of us. The work is not meant to act as a moral compass but rather is meant to call attention to the ways in which we over sentimentalize the animal form to keep from thinking about our human assault on it. I set out to explore the connections between our understandings of animals and the cultural conditions in which these understandings have been formed.