Date of Award
Winter 12-15-2017
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
Department
Art
First Advisor
Lisa Corinne Davis
Second Advisor
Thomas Weaver
Academic Program Adviser
Carrie Moyer
Abstract
My current paintings begin with images of people from the back, wearing hijabs, turbans, saris, kufis, or rasta gauzy shawls. I do not paint my subjects frontally, because I do not have access to them personally or culturally, and because it is their cultural indicators that fascinate me.
Recommended Citation
Breed, Christian, "Pockets of Proximity" (2017). CUNY Academic Works.
https://academicworks.cuny.edu/hc_sas_etds/285