Sunday, September 13, 2009

Gallery Observations

Having worked in the gallery on campus for a semester and running on my third year as a student here, I've been to a couple gallery openings and seen most of the exhibits on campus in the last 3 years. In comparison to past exhibits on campus, I found myself enjoying the work shown more so than in prior experiences. I felt as if this exhibit had a well defined flow of movement about the floor and that the gallery set up allowed for most of its pieces to draw the viewers in. I also had better luck talking or at least being able to hear the artists interact and answer questions in prior experiences.
The work I found most interesting was that of Robert Heinecken. I find that what some might consider distasteful imagery to be a pleasant twist to commentary on American culture. It reminded me of the type of twists I've seen in graffiti work. The use of pornographic negatives in layering allowed for me to leave the distasteful representation of women behind and take a look at the compositional characteristics in each work.

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