The personal aspects and effects of art as an idealistic reaction to contradiction in a material society

This paper, as partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Master of Fine Arts Degree, is a written documentation of my visual thesis which was exhibited from June 16th - July 28th at the Sara Cambell Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston in Houston, Texas. While the conclusions are provisional due to a lack of perspective of the recent past, I shall discuss tie more significant aspects of Houston, Texas, an architypical American city, and the decade of the sixties, as important role players in my artistic development, and aspects of these considerations as they relate to my art as a statement of reaction to contradiction in American society.