Work and research conducted by Violet Love Goode between 2011-2013 as part of the Master of Arts curriculum for the Department of Art at Minnesota State University, Mankato

Goode, Violet L.

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                                 This brochure is submitted to the College of Graduate Studies in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Master of Arts Degree.    A member of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities System. Minnesota State Mankato is an Affirmative Action/equal Opportunity University.    Individuals with a disability, who need a reasonable accommodation to participate in this event, please contact your department or college at 507-389-6412 (V), 800-627-3529 or 711 (MRS/TTY) at least 5 days prior to the event.   Ruminate By Violet Love Goode Master of Arts-Ceramics Thesis Exhibition    March 4th-8th Opening Reception March 4th 7-9pm Conkling Gallery, Nelson Hall Minnesota State University, Mankato    Violet Love Goode 149b James Ave Mankato, MN 56001  Violetlove26@hotmail.com https://www.facebook.com/violetlove  >Education:  2011-2013 MA-Ceramics, Minnesota         State University, Mankato 2002-2006 BFA-Ceramics, Wichita          State University, Wichita         Kansas   >Recent Exhibitions:   2013 Co-lab, Pk Gallery, Mankato, Minnesota  2013 Master of Arts Thesis Exhibition, Conkling Gallery, Minnesota State University, Mankato, Minnesota 2013 National Council Education Ceramic Arts (NCECA), National Student Juried Exhibition, Glassell School of Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Huston, Texas  2012 Dre Day! Benefit Art Show & Auction, 410 Project Gallery, Mankato, Minnesota 2012 Halloween Show, 410 Project Gallery, Mankato, Minnesota 2012 Scopophilia, Student Art League Annual Juried Exhibition, Conkling Gallery, Mankato, Minnesota                      Violet Love Goode Artist Statement  My work stems from a ferocious curiosity about the everyday object from the household, the found, and the discarded.  It is within these objects meaning that I aim to explore the value society places on them as a whole.  Central to my thought process are ideas of consumption and excess, what we chose to regard as compared to what we chose to throw away. Many of the objects are passive participants in our lives and by resurrecting them I hope to call attention and question this system of hierarchy.   As part of my work I often use animals as a way to symbolically call attention to my own thoughts on what I chose to consume and to highlight this inherent hypocrisy that exists in all of us. The work is not meant to act as a moral compass but rather is meant to call attention to the ways in which we over sentimentalize the animal form to keep from thinking about our human assault on it. I set out to explore the connections between our understandings of animals and the cultural conditions in which these understandings have been formed.      

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