DISCUSSION NOTES (researcher)
June 2022 Supervisory Meetings
Participants: Mark Roughley, Dr Robyn Ferrell, and Gina Dominque Hersey All parties met online either via MS Teams or via Zoom
From Friday 10 June 2022 Meeting and
Wednesday 15 June 2022 Supervisory Meeting
Attending on Friday 10 June from 10-11 AM EST:
Lead Supervisor Mark Roughley, TT Supervisor and LJMU PGR/TT practice-based PhD candidate Gina Dominique
Mark and Gina met first and discussed the following:
-Mark connecting Gina with two printmakers in LJMU's print shop and their working to experiment with printing painterly marks onto painted canvases/linen.
-All of their discussing Laura Owens' printed painting technique, which Gina will focus print time experimentation on. Mark and Gina attempted to recreate L.O.'s process from a few Tate collections Owens' work descriptions, and realized that the mentioned "screen" she uses and projects from is NOT a silk screen, as I have misunderstood it to be, but in fact is a monitor...as in a computer screen.
-Documentation of my pieces during my painting or making process...we looked at iPhone images of my work that I take to help "figure out" which end of a painting is "up" and what it is "about". Mark stated that for documentation purposes that Gina will use within her Thesis, these images will work.
-Gina and Mark agreed that she will bring her four unstretched painted linens to Liverpool residency for print experiments.
-Gina noted that once she completes a series, she has it professionally photographed. She will do this upon completion of this series.
-Gina's attendance in a 3-day Lehman College writing retreat this week and her beginning the construction of her Thesis outline.
-Mark reviewed 2022-2023 LJMU PGR deadlines...including the PGR 1st year review documents...showing Gina examples of a recently submitted and successfully completed app.
Attending on Wednesday 15 June from 5-6PM EST:
Transart Supervisor Robyn Ferrell and LJMU PGR/TT practice-based PhD candidate Gina Dominique
During Robyn and Gina's meeting they discussed the following:
-Robyn encouraged Gina to "build a bridge" between her studio practice work and the political ideas or concepts of color, ethnicity, gender, race, sexuality, etc. That bridge being Gina's own theory.
_Robyn asked her to focus on and answer the 2nd Research Project Question:
2. How do the histories of philosophy of color, phenomenology of color, and color theory affect women abstract painters, including me, and how can I re-frame them to be more inclusive?
Gina responded:
A. There is a literal physicality to painting that is inextricably linked to our own physicality.
B. There is a kind of analogy of the stretchers to the body's skeleton,
...and between the canvas or linen or painting surface and the body's musculature
...and between the paint and the skin. The paint is literally the skin of the whole construct.
C. That construct becomes a mirror of the self/painter. The imagery of the painting's skin is a mirror for the mind...linguistically receptively and in terms of messaging...like a human mind.
They discussed phenomenology as a central philosophical methodology within Gina's thesis/dissertation/exegesis. (Along with feminism, deconstruction, psychoanalysis...)
Robyn pointed Gina to her writing "Sacred Exchanges", and to Kant on objectivity...who will do the readings.
Supervisor discussion notes
Agreed action points (to be completed after the meeting)
-Mark and Gina's upcoming meetings during the two week July LJMU-Transart program and residency, devoting one of them to completing and submitting LJMU ethics request to interview abstract painters.
-They scheduled one meeting for 10 AM Monday 25 July, and agreed to meet at least a couple of other times.
-Mark and Gina discussed Gina approaching Laura Owens, Tomashi Jackson, and several other abstract painters. Mark suggested Gina ask Robyn about putting her in touch with at least one Aboriginal abstract painter to interview.
-Mark offered to contact a South African art colleague re: setting Gina up with an interviewee.
-Mark stated he will email Gina digital graphics depicting skin tone charts for his constructed facial models for my reference...we have previously discussed and viewed these kinds of images.
-Robyn requested that Gina "build a bridge" so to speak, which connects her practice to her political concepts of color, ethnicity, gender, race, sexuality, etc. by starting with a 1,000 word statement. that will become the thesis/exegesis or her own theory.
-Gina discussed with Robyn the possibility of mounting her Praxis exhibition from Feb-July 2023 as per Stevenson Univ. Gallery Director scheduling the show. (Originally exhibition was penciled in for a 2024 date.)...R & G agreed that it could be advantageous, if re-scheduled, to have the paintings/praxis complete, and then to write the dissertation/exegesis/thesis. Gina will discuss with Mark re: LJMU schedule guidelines.
