BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME:EventsCalendar PRODID:-//hacksw/handcal//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York LAST-MODIFIED:20240422T053451Z TZURL:https://www.tzurl.org/zoneinfo-outlook/America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:EDT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:EST TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:College of Visual and Performing Arts,Lectures and Seminars,Thes is/Dissertations DESCRIPTION:Advisor: Rebecca Hutchinson Subject: Master of Thesis Defense b y: Yaren Yildiz Topic: From Drawing to Clay: Layering, Pressure, and Densi ty as Material Strategies for Articulating the Body as Visceral and in Flu x Date: May 1st, 2026 Time: 11: 00 AM Location: UMass Dartmouth CVPA Art & Design Studio Abstract: This thesis explores the body as sensation rather than representation through ceramic sculpture and drawing. Grounded in a drawing-based practice, the work approaches clay as a responsive and trans formative material that records touch, pressure, and time. Rather than dep icting the human figure, the sculptures evoke bodily states through fragme nted, organic forms that suggest tension, movement, and instability. The c onceptual framework of the thesis is informed by Francis Bacon’s emphasi s on sensation over representation, as discussed in his conversations with David Sylvester and in Gilles Deleuze’s The Logic of Sensation. Additio nal influences include the films of David Cronenberg, particularly their d epiction of bodies that appear strangely alive, as well as the drawings of Hans Bellmer, whose intense line quality and physical immediacy resonate with clay’s material behavior. Drawing functions alongside ceramics as a parallel site of inquiry, informing the buildup, density, and surface log ic of the sculptural work. Through variations in scale and physical presen ce, the work emphasizes embodiment as a relational and experiential condit ion. By prioritizing material intensity and transformation, this thesis po sitions ceramics and drawing as interconnected practices that engage the b ody through sensation rather than visual representation.\nEvent page: http s://www.umassd.edu/events/cms/master-of-fine-arts-thesis-defense-by-yaren- yildiz.php X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Advisor: Rebecca Hutchinson

Subject: Master of Thesis Defense by: Yaren Yildiz

Topic: Fro m Drawing to Clay: Layering\, Pressure\, and Density as Material Strategie s for Articulating the Body as Visceral and in Flux

Date: May 1st\ , 2026

Time: 11: 00 AM

Location: UMass Dartmouth CVPA Art & Design Studio

Abstract:

This thesis explores the body as sensation rather than representation through ceramic sculpture and drawin g. Grounded in a drawing-based practice\, the work approaches clay as a re sponsive and transformative material that records touch\, pressure\, and t ime. Rather than depicting the human figure\, the sculptures evoke bodily states through fragmented\, organic forms that suggest tension\, movement\ , and instability.

The conceptual framework of the thesis is infor med by Francis Bacon’s emphasis on sensation over representation\, as di scussed in his conversations with David Sylvester and in Gilles Deleuze’ s The Logic of Sensation. Additional influences include the films of David Cronenberg\, particularly their depiction of bodies that appear strangely alive\, as well as the drawings of Hans Bellmer\, whose intense line qual ity and physical immediacy resonate with clay’s material behavior. Drawi ng functions alongside ceramics as a parallel site of inquiry\, informing the buildup\, density\, and surface logic of the sculptural work.

Through variations in scale and physical presence\, the work emphasizes em bodiment as a relational and experiential condition. By prioritizing mater ial intensity and transformation\, this thesis positions ceramics and draw ing as interconnected practices that engage the body through sensation rat her than visual representation.

Event page: https://www.umassd.edu/events/cms/master-of-fine-arts-thesis-defense-by-y aren-yildiz.php

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