Date of Award
Fall 1-5-2024
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
Department
Art
First Advisor
Lisa Corinne Davis
Academic Program Adviser
Carrie Moyer and Lisa Corinne Davis
Abstract
Sam Mattax's practice is aimed at working through what he has lived and what he is living. They are self-involved diaristic building blocks of marking time and release. The layered drawings negotiate Sam's history and his day to day, distorting one another into a place of unrecognizable space and condensed energy. It is a process of attaining a loose understanding of his life and forgetting it all at once. Sam's work is survival.
Recommended Citation
Mattax, Samuel Robert Gaston, "Pan Shot!" (2024). CUNY Academic Works.
https://academicworks.cuny.edu/hc_sas_etds/1101