Browsing by Author ""Lambert, Coral""

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Lightscapes
(Alfred University, 2024) "Scheidt, Rhiannon"; "Lambert, Coral"; "Blood, Sarah"; "Yurkevicz, Emily"
"Light illuminates and animates our physical world and is a compelling and sensational sculptural medium. I feel an irresistible pull towards light and anything reflective, refractive, sparkly, or luminous in nature. The physical objects around us are intimately tied to luminosity as the reflected light defines and fills volume, creates tone, elicits emotional responses, and compels bodily movement. As an object maker, my bond to materials and processes generates much of my visual language. Mediums such as iron, wood, glass, and reflective vinyl are used to redirect, refract, amplify, suppress light, and create shadow. Through the sculptural practices of metal casting and glass fusing, I use scarred, fragmented surfaces as evidence of time. The crumbling voids left behind as the structures erode hold a palpable melancholy and nostalgia. While some works portray a brooding landscape of shadows and charred forms, other works are joyful dances with light and color as I recreate personal moments of interaction with the sun. I am inspired by the ephemeral, immersive works of the Light and Space artists of the 1970’s. Their influence has accelerated my investigations into light, the physicality of material objects and the experiential moments they can create."
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"Oh, To Be a Kid Again"
(Alfred University, 2024) "Cadorette,Claire"; "Lambert, Coral"; "Wheeler, William"; "Powers, Angus"
"My art practice occupies the space between my emotional experience and the desire to comfort myself. The work is often childlike and homey with themes of nostalgia and abundance. I intend to use positive emotions as a thin veil to address anxieties that manifest from the journey from childhood to adulthood. Avoidance of emotion is pertinent to my work, and because ‘worry’ transfigures over time, my method to work through my fears is to adorn them. The sections of this thesis are Childhood with Anxiety, Interaction with Trust, Gender with Labor, and finally Multiplicity with Death. Within these pairings are habits I developed surrounding difficult emotions. Integral to this experience is the perpetual longing to make my negative feelings disappear. The work discussed here are brightly colored and interactive. My installations are marked as whimsical, as they are often a saccharin combination of colorful glass and textiles. The undercurrent of duality is also present in my material choices: hard and soft; warm and cold; flexible and brittle. The guise of naïveté is ever present, but this innocence is intentionally false. I play with the idea of yearning for an uncomplicated perception. This pining for comfort, coupled with emotional escapism, is the foundation on which my practice is built."
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The Threads We Hold
(Alfred University, 2024) "Mortensen, Heidi"; "Arday, Rebecca"; "Lambert, Coral"; "Yurkevicz, Emily"
"This thesis explores the interplay between place, memory, and the embodied experience, within the framework of “home”, specifically addressing displacement and loss. As our foremost experience of place, home is an anchor point, and dislocation from this foundational connection leaves us in the mutable, fragmentary, and unreliable realm of memory. Our memories and our bodily experience are intertwined aspects of our connection to the places of our lives. Place, Memory, and the Body create a latticework for investigating an understanding of ourselves, our history, and the stories we construct. Central to my practice is examining the ways we create and hold connection to place, how our embodied experiences frame our remembering, and how we construct our narratives around these memories. This forms a complex picture of the interconnectedness of ourselves with place and the trauma inflicted by loss and displacement. Through physical materials of glass, plaster, metal, wood, fabric, and the incorporation of personal items, I make tangible the experiences and emotions tied to memory, dislocation, and loss. Within the reality of a world-wide crisis of displaced persons, I find relevance in the investigation of how home and place play a crucial role in all our lives."