First thing is first, I visited the Burchfiled Penney Art's Gallery on campus. The three exhibits that stood out the most to me were : MELT by Brian Millbrand, Biological Regionalism by Alberto Rey, Fly Fishing: A celebration of the stream. The major themes of these exhibits all made a splash with water.
Fly Fishing: A celebration of the stream
The overall theme of this exhibit is display the beauty of nature. The colors on the walls were a darker gray, and this exhbit was in a hallway. The lighting was dim and shined on the each piece slightly to emphasize the piece of art. This exhibit included more than one artist to be in focus and also a mix of media.However, each piece was apporximately the same size and framed the same. They were all labeled to side of each piece on a plastic white plastic lable. Since this exhibit is in a hallway the movement down the hallway is linear and you look at one side then walk back down the hallway and look at the other side. These paintings are about equidistant from eachother.
MELT: Brian Milbrand
The theme of this exhibit it displaying the movement of waters and organisms. Milbrad used two different types of media's within most of his pieces. One: a projector and two: watercolor on canvas. The lighting used within the gallery was dim ambiant lighting. The exhibit was not too bright, but also not too dark. The colors of the walls were a really light gray. The space was at the end of a hallway corridor with the flying fish exhibit and it opens up to a room made of walls that made it almost rectangular shaped. However, the walls do not continue all the way to the cieling, the cieling was extemely high up. So it allowed more light into the area, but made it more of a intimate space. The movement for me was about counter clockwise through the space. I started with the wall that had the name of the exhibit and moved around the room to the left and watched the movement of the pieces. The artwork was organized on the wall with approximately equidistance from each other with the same dark black frames of the same material. The art pieces were similar in size and also content was mostly water color. The artwork was different because of content and movement. They moved in different ways, some flowed more and some were more choppy. The pieces were each identified and labeled with little plastic lables on the right or left hand side of the piece depended where on the walls the piece was located.
Biological Regionalism: Alberto Rey
Can I start by saying, THIS EXHIBIT WAS AWESOME! The theme of the exhibit is to reconsider our relationship with our environment. Scajaquada creek was the main attraction. The colors of the walls were white or light gray. The ceilings were high and the lighting was bright. The exhibit was gigantic! I walked out of the MELT exhibit and my jaw dropped. on the right was the wall with the title of the exhibit and I started there. I then walked across the room and started with the artwork that started at the beginning of the Scajaquada river . The geography of the river was painted on the wall which lines like a timeline connecting to each piece naming the location. Along with each painting, there was an artifact from each location in a jar with the content of the water. Not only did Alberto Rey paint and collect artifacts from approximately 6 sights along the river, he also had the water tested. It was tested for safety of the water and conductivity. His exhibit examines the ecological changes over time. The wall the mural of the creek and these paintings are on is curved. outward, the cielings are high and the lighting is bright. I moved from the right wall of the staircase where the description of the exhibit is located to across the room to beginning of the river to the end of the river. The artworks are similar because of colors used and the content of the river, however locations and point of views are all different. They are all framed with what I believe are wooden frames. They are labeled with a description of the art piece as well as the information about the artifacts with bargraphs and infromatin about the water testing. Each piece of work is separted within equidistance of each other.
Biological Regionalism: Alberto Rey
Can I start by saying, THIS EXHIBIT WAS AWESOME! The theme of the exhibit is to reconsider our relationship with our environment. Scajaquada creek was the main attraction. The colors of the walls were white or light gray. The ceilings were high and the lighting was bright. The exhibit was gigantic! I walked out of the MELT exhibit and my jaw dropped. on the right was the wall with the title of the exhibit and I started there. I then walked across the room and started with the artwork that started at the beginning of the Scajaquada river . The geography of the river was painted on the wall which lines like a timeline connecting to each piece naming the location. Along with each painting, there was an artifact from each location in a jar with the content of the water. Not only did Alberto Rey paint and collect artifacts from approximately 6 sights along the river, he also had the water tested. It was tested for safety of the water and conductivity. His exhibit examines the ecological changes over time. The wall the mural of the creek and these paintings are on is curved. outward, the cielings are high and the lighting is bright. I moved from the right wall of the staircase where the description of the exhibit is located to across the room to beginning of the river to the end of the river. The artworks are similar because of colors used and the content of the river, however locations and point of views are all different. They are all framed with what I believe are wooden frames. They are labeled with a description of the art piece as well as the information about the artifacts with bargraphs and infromatin about the water testing. Each piece of work is separted within equidistance of each other.
I think that visiting the Gallery with taking more the surrounding into consideration and thinking of the theme was purposeful because the artists are a part of the whole space their exhibit takes up and it displays where the view should look, how they should move around the space, which pieces have more or less emphasis and create and overall atmosphere to display their works of art. I personally was drawn to the three exhbits that were related in theme, with the overall content of water. I think the neutral colors for the walls create more emphasis on the works themselves which is nice too.
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