UC Irvine

What follows is an explication of the body of work displayed as 7 Paintings for Spring in the University Art Gallery at UC Irvine between April 20 and May 4, 2024 as partial fulfillment of the MFA in Art. Through the aid of a written Picture of the practice that produced them, this thesis aims to weave and unwind the project of recording, situating painting and writing as symmetrical activity, though indeed each is autonomous in look. (In pragmatic assessment, the former is of course mute.) What I have found as compatible is the language used in the paintings’ stead. Appended is a selected annotated bibliography in essay form that may illustrate my thinking through language, working through texts for which I have found a penchant and a vertiginous whirl, so to position my practice, the one that makes paintings. Because the paintings insist on the present tense, the verbal communication that flanks and constructs them has location in precedent, for a present cannot be translated by thin air, but by the brackets of time. This is the endeavor laid forth here.