Chelsea Galleries

On this last trip , visiting galleries was interesting. I have mixed feelings about some galleries. Some I honestly thought what a waste of space and some like wow amazing. It was exciting to see many kinds of art work. My favorite would be the 3d art and, the juxtapose art. I love the colors the forms and the effects they had. Also of course the chocolate factory was amazing. it was impressive. What was also impressive where the prices. But I though to my self as I looked at some of the art "I can make this at home ". I honestly think some of the art we saw was not art. Over all the trip to the Chelsea Galleries was great.

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My visit to the Chelsea galleries was magnificent. I especially enjoyed variety of of different style displayed in the galleries. We got a tiny introduction to every type of art. One visually striking work of art was the sculpture of a cup that seemed to be covered in blood and gore. The sculpture was massive. I could not believe the amount of work that seemed to be put into it. The bright glossy red screamed "LOOK THIS WAY". There was a sense of deep darkness incorporated with the piece. The entire exhibition conveyed a dark theme. The big yellow chair was very interesting too. I wonder what exactly was he trying to say with this? Is he for or against execution? Why do their prices start at 400,000? I'm still trying to figure that out. Nonetheless i was left mesmerized by the solid bold primary color in the work. I was left questioning myself about motive behind a lot of works: For instance The stack of index cards, the balls of straws, the chocolate factory. I wish i could comprehend, but it was a lot of art to digest in that short amount of time. By far my favorite exhibition was "Flowers", i was literally left dazed, confused, and with a bit of a headache. But after seeing the side view of the work i finally understood, and i kind of wanted one of the pieces of art. I was so interested that i was left behind by the class. This trip was indeed my favorite of all. I enjoyed the amount of work displayed and that we saw their prices.

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Although I was unable to attend the class trip on Wednesday I was able to visit one of the many galleries on Tuesday. I can honestly say I am a bit bummed out I didn’t get a chance to visit the rest of the galleries but I’ll be sure to do this summer. The one exhibit I was able to to visit was Tara Donovan on W 25th. The one thing that struck me about this installation was the fact that as soon as I came across it I immediately thought about ice glaciers in Alaska except these were a bit more isolated. From afar it was as if someone had taken 12 glaciers and stuck them inside a Manhattan studio, the overall texture of them looked to be bumpy at first but when I took a closer look I noticed that the artist had actually constructed them to be rigid not bumpy. By using what looked to be like paper cuts of cardboard the artist was able to stack them up in different ways the build the “glaciers”. The monochromatic color and the way the each of the stacks and stacks of what look like paper made me think of a messy secretaries desk with stacks and stacks of paperwork. As I walked into the other room my first impression of Tara Donovan’s enormous installation “Untitled” was “Wow”. At first glance I thought “it looks like a fuzzy discombobulated teddy-bear”. I know if I would have said that out loud others in the gallery would have thought I was crazy for thinking so but the reason being was that when I was younger I had a teddy bear that resembled the same monochromatic color and what appeared to be from far away as a fuzzy soft texture. As I walked closer to it though I was stunned to find out that Tara Donovan constructed this installation with acrylic! The sheerness and shininess of the thin acrylic pieces put together made up a stunning work of art. 

Chelsea Galleries

My experience on the trip to the galleries was pleasant. I enjoyed looking at the many types of art, and found out something that you least expect, could actually be called art. There was a gallery of many random words on a portrait hanging on walls. I found this to be confusing and constantly asking myself what's so special about this? But then I realize the word play and how the colors and different combinations of words can justify it's simplistic nature.

One memorable moment was when we came into the optical illusion gallery. This was my favorite because the pop art is genius. When you walk around them, it feels like they are actually moving to. It's really trippy and messes with your mind and I find it fascinating.

I also enjoyed the alice and wonderland gallery. It gave us a little different taste of how modern technology can come into play in the works of art.

In this art piece on one of the galleries, we see monochromatic colors of grey and white and neutrality, but also a little shade of green and blue. There is an implied 3-dimensional aspect, as we can see the tortoise shell poses as if it were popping out. There is implied lighting on the ball on top of the turtle and the turtle's neck. The use of light and dark all around make this piece stand out. I enjoyed this piece because it really catches your eye and it seems so chaotic to signify a war going on. I would definitely love to have this in my room.

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The trip we took to all the different galleries gave me a different way of looking at art and the way that it constantly amazed me and how not every artist is the same. I know for a fact that art will always find a way to show us that you can find aesthetic value through different styles form Gallery that has clothing with messages that you can only see with camera and art that isn't main stream art. I realized that people can find art in various places just like the Gallery we went to see. my favorite art was the flower gallery i feel in love with all the art in there. one pieces that stood out to the most was a painting of Marilyn Monroe with Mickey as her boobs. i really like this type of art because it in a weird way speaks to me. the other work of art that really liked was the one with the hidden words written on the blanket i found that really cool and interesting love how the artist hide the words in the blanket and i especially enjoyed the art were when you moved it followed you. ive come to learn that art is always around us we just need to take the time to stop and look and appreciated whats in front of us. this is the painting that i feel in love with. 

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 Although I wasn't able to make it on the trip one exhibit that stood out to me was sterling ruby. The reason I like this exhibit is because it looks super creative. One of my favorite pieces is ACTS/SOME RISE SOME REST. The reason I like this one is because of the way both blocks contrast each other and have different forms, such as organic and sharp shapes. The uses of warm colors help create a feeling that it is hot and the warm colors complement the organic shape of the sunrise. If you look at the sculpture the way the blocks are set up to me shows the transition from daylight to evening. Another sculpture that stood out to me was Hanging Fingers. The reason I find this sculpture interesting is because of the size and the message it portrays to me. In my eyes the sculpture shows that we U.S citizens are forced to do what society wants us to do. I say this because you can see that the sculpture is shaped like a person and its holding on to the rod that is above it and it is covered with American flags all around them. This sculpture can relate to a lot of people because some people come from different countries and bring their American dreams with them and as times get hard they hold on to them until they can accomplish them. But most of the time they lose themselves and just give up. In my eyes this sculpture is the most moving because it helps create an aesthetic emotion and can draw a picture that a lot of people can relate to or understand. Even though I wasn't able to show up I’m grateful that I still got to see the different galleries and experience such beautiful different types of sculptures and installations.

 

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Ricardo Castro

Art

06/03/14

The galleries I saw on our trip were phenomenal. I enjoyed all of them, but two of them really stuck out to me. One was an installation of a chocolate factory from Colombia by Oscar Murillo. This installation was one of my favorites, because not only was there free delicious chocolate, but there were real workers working in the back! Peeping through the shelves you could see workers in the back wrapping up the chocolate in their full body suits. I found this to be unique and interesting for an art gallery it literally brought the piece to life. However my number one favorite piece of art was “Wolfbat Leopard Snake” by Dennis McNett. The way McNett used his creativity to create this piece of art really makes me enjoy art even more. The mixture of  grayish looking scales and a cool bright blue on the stomach of the beasts and its eyes really captures my eyes. Along side the warm pink long tongue that falls down its mouth, this piece of art captivated me enough to want to get a tattoo of it. 

There were other pieces of art such as this type of art where if you moved it seemed as if the piece of art would move with you. Patrick Hughes, the creator of these pieces of art, really captures the cool blue colors of the ocean and the sky as he adds the orange warm colored buildings that seem to be on top of the water. With the effect of it moving with you it really brings life to the artwork. One really stuck out to me, which was a piece where from the front it looked like a cut up stomach with blood dripping down from the bottom. However when I walked past it there was a handle, so I was able to conclude that it was a teacup. This piece was by Sterling Ruby and ironically named “The Cup.” This piece from the angle I was looking at it made it seem very gory and unpleasant to look at, like a cup full of blood.

Chelsea Piers

The trip to chelsea piers to see the free galleries was a trip I'll relive a few times with a few different people because I will for sure make my way down there more than a couple of times this summer. 

I walked into a chocolate factory and got free chocolate and didn't find out until the next day that it was merely a recreation and it was actually some what of an installation. I was confused by the three dimensional art, I mistook them for holographic images and walked passed them many times because the kid in me loved that the images seemed to follow me. It wasn't until I took a look under them and saw their architecture that the images stopped moving and I was disappointed in myself for ending the game.

We approached a series of installation that took an enormous amount of self control not to touch, I’m almost certain I could have outran the security but they have cameras in venues like that and my grandmother shouldn’t see her grandson on TV for destroying what initially looked like soda straws glued together. It was so large, and coincidentally, we got to see partitions of it being carried in after we left. 

My favorite visit by far was the gallery celebrating Juxtapoz Magazine. 

I enjoyed the gritty, urban inspired art very much and envisioned it in my own space when I had enough money to get one. 

This was among my favorites, the blue and yellow offset the monochromatic pinkness in the background. The value in the middle ground produced a shadow that didn't seem to fit the contours of the woman, as though someone were standing over her. Her legs are so defined and strong the pose almost seems sexualized, you can't help but wonder what brought about the look of content on her face. 

If I took anything away from Art & Society it was the realization that I enjoyed art passed a pedestrian level, I truly enjoyed looking at a painting and trying to share the mental space of the artist that created it. It almost makes me want to create myself, I may casually pick up a brush one day. Maybe not...who knows. But to even have had this spark that was believed to never have been there, I'm deeply grateful. 

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            Last week we visited quite a few different galleries in Chelsea and it was a wonderful experience. I never knew that Chelsea was the center of the New York art world. I saw a handful of stunning paintings, sculptures and installations from different artists. I thoroughly enjoyed the Studiolospective exhibition in the Flowers gallery by Patrick Hughes. The gallery is located on 529 120th street.  The exhibition consisted of optical illusion paintings and pop up works of art. At first it caused some dizziness and confusion but it was refreshing to view art that's unusual and different from other art that I'm familiar with. The painting that intrigued me straight away from the exhibit was the abstract pop up painting. Hughes incorporated a monster-looking creature with horns in the painting. I realized when I walk to the right, the monster starts walking towards you to the left. He also included paintings within the painting, which caused some confusion and kept me pensive about the meaning of the painting. Despite their being a monster within the painting, Hughes used a combination of cool and neutral colors which provoke a calm and soothing emotion. The lines in this particular painting are intricate and very precise which give it a neat and stunning appearance. Another artwork that captured my attention straight away was these large-scale sculptures that are part of the Pace gallery. The sculptures resembled trees and appeared to be formed of index cards and acrylic rods. This installation is currently located on 534 West 25th street and is created by the artist Tara Donovan. While viewing these sculptures, I kept thinking to myself how they installed it inside the gallery space and how long it took for Tara Donovan to create it. The variety of sizes that Tara Donovan chose to create it in, was confusing as well. Three sculptures were shorter than the rest of them and there was one in particular that stood out the most. 

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           First off I would like to begin by saying I had an amazing time. Although I could never afford to buy any of the art, some of the pieces were really awesome. Unfortunately I failed as an art critic and did not record the mediums or names of the artists for my favorite pieces.  The 3 dimensional paintings were definitely the most visually confusing and stimulating work we saw. I spent a good fifteen minutes staring and walking toward them and away to make myself dizzy. I liked the book shelf one the best but unfortunately did not take a picture. My favorite standard 2-D painting was the one of the girl in Times Square texting. The medium appeared to be oil on canvas and the statement was priceless. It would be considered a representational piece because the girl, her accessories and the sheep are life-like. It is a girl on a cellphone in the foreground walking amongst sheep while surrounded by well known symbols of American capitalism. In the sky appears formations of fighter planes. The painting is obviously a statement about our culture and the culture of war and imperialism that has become synonymous with the America of today. I believe it represents the distracted youth, that people have become so distracted by material things they do not realize they are slowly turning into sheep and forfeiting their civil rights to the military industrial complex.

          The monochromatic sculpture made out of slivers of paper was pretty cool as was the sculpture made out of solid plastic straws in the next room. Honestly the most interesting piece was the 4 dimensional installation of the chocolate factory. I was able to research this piece on the internet and it was created by a 28 year old Colombian artist named Oscar Murillo with assistance from the Colombian chocolate company Colombina. The Company provided the 13 workers. This installation was pretty original, the workers in the back were creating the product on an assembly line while the main part of the exhibit were crates and boxes of the chocolate, Along the back wall were large glass vases containing the chocolate in various stages and miniature paintings done by the artist but I cannot recall what they were of. Overall this installation was pretty incredible and complex and to make it even better, they gave us free chocolate on our way out the door.

         It is difficult to find an appropriate way to end this review. All I can say is I am grateful for the opportunity to have seen the things we have seen. Sometimes it becomes difficult to appreciate art on display or just around us in our communities. Thanks!!!