After seeing the first senior art show I was thoroughly impressed, but the second art show was even better. From extremely large elephants to interactive art pieces. I really enjoyed that there were many art piece that one could interact with, it made the experience even that more entertaining.
The extremely large elephant was the first piece that caught my eye. One would be able to see it from a mile away. I believe that the title of the piece was “Life is though, so we pull the wool over our eyes”, but I’m not sure if that was just a quote intended to evoke thought while looking at the piece. The elephant was not only large but pink. Jessie Lieberman, the artist, wanted the piece to evoke a sense of going back to childhood. The large pink elephant is supposed to represent comfort. The sign in front of the elephant told the view to enter the belly of the elephant. As I lowered my head into the belly of the gigantic stuffed animal I felt comfortable and as thought I wanted to take a nap right there, on the pillows and fluff. The light streaming into the cozy compartment was diffused and also comforting. I was impressed by the thought and craftsmanship that Jessie put into her piece. I knew how much work and time she put into it.
After being awed by the work of Jessie I ventured over to “Storage” by Dylan Clark. Here I was also impressed with thought behind the piece. Only someone that knew a little bit about modern art would really understand the irony of this piece. Dylan made replicas of modern sculptures by arts David Smith, Alberto Giacometti, Alexander Calder, Marcel Duchamp, and Richard Serra. Then he placed those pieces against a steal rusted plate. The rusted plate represents a storage unit. He states in his artist statement “[...] each work looks new and undamaged to convey the current importance to the modern art world, but they are placed haphazardly to show the potential lack of attention in the future”. I don’t know if I fully agree with Dylan when he states that these pieces are going to lose importance in the future. I believe that some of those works could last as long in importance as the Mona Lisa. Yes, there have been many works forgotten or dismissed but we do not know yet if the pieces that we call modern will disappear with time. I love the accuracy with which he portrayed the modern works. I look as though he pull much time and effort into his idea and execution.
The last things that I looked at while visiting the gallery were two comic book style works, one by Courtney Burns and the other by C. Knight. Courtney’s was anime inspired and had to do with a reinterpretation of the three fates and cutting string to end a life. She made the three fates into a hooded figure and the string into a clock. I thought it was visually interesting how she made large colored images of her story and posted them on the wall with the book there for people to read. C. Knight did a similar thing but he put the whole content of his book on the wall. His book was about zombies taking over. The picture quality of C. Knights story was very good. His use of Photoshop made it look very professional.
The second senior art show was by far the more interesting one. Not to put down the first show, I thought that the senior in that show had equal talent, but as a viewer I definitely had more fun walking through scary mazes, ducking into a shrine, and laying in my childhood fantasies.
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