Announcing the Thesis Defense of Alexander Alvarez for the degree Master of Fine Arts Emerging Media in Studio Art & Design track
Arising from the complications of an underprivileged and impoverished background my artistic practice focuses on exposing the grotesque consequences of conflicting ideologies through personal and societal suffering while in search of universal connections to showcase the need for compassion and understanding. I utilize art to have difficult discussions, a tool for teaching themes of injustice, inequality, and mistreatment. The traumatizing experience of poverty or corruption has the potential to be transmuted into something beneficial. This attempt at an honest, unflinching exploration of self and society is to shift perspectives away from apathy, towards thoughtfulness for other's struggles.
Thesis Committee:
Jason Burrell, Senior Lecturer (chair)
Carla Poindexter, Professor
Amer Kobaslija, Associate Professor
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