Location
Lower Gallery, Daura Museum of Art
Access Type
Campus Access Only
Presentation Type
Creative presentation
Entry Number
59
Start Date
4-16-2026 10:00 AM
End Date
4-16-2026 3:00 PM
School
School of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Department
Art
Keywords
Grief, surrealism, oil painting, emotional, psychological
Abstract
5 Stages of Grief is a series of oil paintings that explores how I perceive the process of grieving through personal objects in the home. Organized around five commonly recognized stages—Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, and Acceptance—the works connected together by a continuous, expansive backdrop that evokes memory, perception, and the constructed nature of the emotional narrative. Rather than offering literal depictions, I place the subject within a domestic interior space surrounded with familiar household objects that function as symbols for complex emotional states. Through subtle distortions and surreal strategies, these forms are re-contextualized to evoke instability, tension, and transformation. By combining symbolic imagery with pictorial interpretation, this series positions grief as both deeply personal and collectively understandable, proposing painting as a means of examining psychological space, inner experience, and shared awareness.
Primary Faculty Mentor(s)
Prof. Allen Tenbusschen
Primary Faculty Mentor(s) Department
Prof. Allen Tenbusschen
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5 Stages of Grief
Lower Gallery, Daura Museum of Art
5 Stages of Grief is a series of oil paintings that explores how I perceive the process of grieving through personal objects in the home. Organized around five commonly recognized stages—Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, and Acceptance—the works connected together by a continuous, expansive backdrop that evokes memory, perception, and the constructed nature of the emotional narrative. Rather than offering literal depictions, I place the subject within a domestic interior space surrounded with familiar household objects that function as symbols for complex emotional states. Through subtle distortions and surreal strategies, these forms are re-contextualized to evoke instability, tension, and transformation. By combining symbolic imagery with pictorial interpretation, this series positions grief as both deeply personal and collectively understandable, proposing painting as a means of examining psychological space, inner experience, and shared awareness.