Kingdom Compossible

• Main Author: Lauterio, Ryan
• Format: Others
• Published: VCU Scholars Compass 2009
• Subjects: painting; theme parks; God; worldview; evolution; truth; expressionism; impressionism; science; high jump; Martin Kippenberger; Venice Beach; post-painterly abstraction; hard edge abstraction; Bay Area figuration; Sacramento; Art and Design; Arts and Humanities
• Online Access: http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/1821; http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2820&context=etd

Does God exist? Can we know for sure? What might it mean to know this? Furthermore what might it look like to make works of art while also seeking to find answers to these questions? This thesis details my personal experiences growing up in a world steeped in postmodernism and my move to answer such questions while looking to develop a meaningful, clear worldview and body of work. I have turned my focus on specific episodes in my life, which significantly illuminate a progression of thinking and experience. Together these thoughts and experiences have become the impetus for both questions and propositions embedded within the long haul of my work culminating in my thesis exhibition.