Art Gallery Trip One

A. 1. Jim Hodges Look and See, 2005 Enamel on Stainless steel This was pointed out to me as a good place to start and it was true. It was a nice day and I enjoyed walking around this sculpture. With the mirrors reflecting the sun and people walking by it was always changing. Initially, when I looked out the door I thought it was going to be a cylinder and was surprised when it was more of a S curve. I liked the contrast of the black, white, mirrors and open spaces. I like the balance of this sculpture. 2. Joao Onofre Untitled (masked tap dancer), 2005 Video with color and sound, edition of 6 and 2AP Running time 11 minutes, 53 seconds I admit at first I was drawn by the flat screen TV hanging on the wall of the art gallery. But I stood there and couldn’t walk away. At first I was intent on following the tap dancer, watching his feet and listening to the different rhythms. I was watching his feet and the pavement, concrete pavement and intersections. There may be a pattern but I couldn’t figure it out. After a few minutes I started looking at the other people around the tap dancer walking towards him? Her? Some had no reaction, some stared, some smirked, some laughed, and then when a gruesome face turns around you understand the reason for the reactions. It was mesmerizing. 3. Daniel Ridgway Knight Springtime, ca, 1980 Oil on canvas After my brief experience with paint I was very interested in the details in this painting. The flowers, grasses and branches, the shading and values of colors were amazing. What impressed me most was that the girl’s face was painted so perfectly it could have been a photograph. B. 1. Jasper Johns Numbers in Color 1958-59 Encaustic and newspaper on canvas I felt a connection to this because it is in our textbook as an example of encaustic painting techniques. I think I actually used it in one of my responses. It was interesting to see it you could almost “feel” the texture just by looking at it. 2. Sol LeWitt Wall Drawing #1268: Scribbles: Staircase Conceived 2006, executed 2010 This was amazing and I was totally in awe of this art conceived by LeWitt. It was amazing. One of the videos or power points I watched to create the value scale said to use small circular strokes to create the different values. I felt the connection to this because that was what I had tried to do. The picture I took is a spot where three different values meet. Watching the light and shadows created by other viewers walking was amazing. 3. Tom Wesselman Still Life #20, 1962 Mixed media I was attracted to this because of the mixed media. I felt a connection to it because at home bread and bananas sit on the counter next to each other just like in this artwork. Also a few years ago I worked at a place that had a sink set up just like the one in the still life. This was a very different mix of media I thought the collage made of the colors throughout the art work served to provide balance. C. 1. Brice Marden Red, Yellow, Blue No.1, 1974 Oil and wax on canvas Of course the first thing that attracted me to this painting was because of the primary colors I grew up with. I went on to read that it was painted during the minimalist movement wherein less is more, and back to the basics but it is still three painted rectangles. It is similar in color, not shape or media, to Ellsworth Kelly’s work Blue, Yellow, and Red. 2. Georgia O’Keeffe Green Patio Door, 1955 Oil on canvas Even with a title I don’t get it. I would like more of an explanation or insight of how to get to see a green patio door. It was very different from her painting in out textbook (except that both were southwestern) Deer’s Skull with Pedernal, p. 117. 3. Adolph Gottlieb Pictograph, 1946 Oil on canvas I’d like to have more insight. I don’t see anything cohesive except the color palette. I ‘see a tent, an ear, a nose, breasts, a vase, arrows, I’m not sure. I see pieces but nothing as a whole.