Fitting Room art.

            Yesterday in painting class we were given an assignment. My paint professor gave the class individual pictures drawn by other art students in a different class on their view of New York. We were told to either finish the artwork or paint our interpretation including the "New York" theme. My assigned portrait (viewed at the bottom) looked like a fitting room which included clothes & hangers & the fact that it stated it was a fitting room :) I found mine to be extremely easy (thank God) because New York is known for the fabulous stores. So I painted a fitting room in a Christian Dior store. It's not an actually Dior fitting room, of course but  a girl can dream. I also put into my painting a modern looking dress with the same color red strips, and I based my painting of the store under construction due to the Sept 11 tragedy. With the cracked walls, the "Dior NY" sign on the floor and ceiling water stains. 

(My lovely portrait)

Visit to the Guggenheim.

It is said that a picture is worth a thousands words or live life for the moment. These sayings take meaning when visiting Lee Ufan’s exhibit. It is very simple but gave impact on the display of art and at the same time making the viewers interact with it. In a way it makes you live the moment of art work.

 Lee Ufan’s work is not the type to drown your visual senses with elaborate colors or with hidden works. Its uses a monochrome style and instead of over powering one of senses, it grabs us a whole. It’s in this processes that viewer experiences, the real world experience.

In the exhibit every piece had its own way, though very simply, of conveying a sense of spirituality. Best example of that was the rock sitting on the shatter piece of glass. These are items that everyone interacts with daily. But it’s the way they are juxtaposed that gives it meaning. It makes you travel to the moment in life whether good or bad and relive it. The time you broke a window or your last car accident. It took the moment that you “lived life for the moment” and that significant meaning/spirituality that came with it, and made you relive it.

(My weird drawing of what I've seen)

(Rocks on top of pillows)

Some of the artist I've seen in class.

John Pilson:

http://www.johnpilson.com/

http://photo.bard.edu/faculty/profiles.shtml?id=3418153

http://5b4.blogspot.com/2007/08/interregna-by-john-pilson.html

 Lara Favaretto:   

http://www.franconoero.com/artisti/lara-favaretto

http://www.friezefoundation.org/commissions/detail/lara_favaretto/

nine/eleven

Ten years later as America grows stronger over terrorism, we remember that horrible day where many lives were lost. As the ten years rolled, I've gotten the chance to visit two exhibits about 9/11. The first was at LaGuardia community college where I attend classes, and MoMa ps1 in Long island city. As I was trying to find comparison between the two, I truly couldn't. I found the MoMa exhibit to be a bit boring and had nothing to really do with what happened on that dreadful day and almost forgetting to mention that I couldn't take pictures. But I did find some work that caught my eye. The artist John Pilson with a photo titled "plane" in the picture the reflection of the plane as it would look like flying into a window. That blew my mind because I can't imagine myself being in that situation. Another by artist Lara Favaretto, titled "Lost and Found" where there was a real big suit case on the floor. As I read the description it explained where the

slogan "if you see something, say something" came from in 2002. 

The Exhibit in LaGuardia stood out to me more with the overwhelming descriptions and stories of each art piece. Artist Michael Richards had a studio in the WTC 92 floor, He passed away working over night doing  a piece on world war 2. In the picture it's a pilot with planes flying into him from every direction. Which from my point of view seemed ironic. 

Another were pictures of victims posted up by family members trying to located their loved ones at the site. That section of the exhibit truly put a lump in my throat. While some just gave me goose bumps. The artist Cris Cristofaro hung up empty body bags and on the description stated that "the bags on the wall mimicked the towers with the bags opened revealing bodies that never came.