Senior Exhibition Reception

      On Friday January 20th, I attended the Senior Exhibition Reception sponsored by the Julio Fine Arts Gallery. This was my first time going to the gallery. After living on campus for a few months, why I had I never gone to it before? Probably because I normally picture art galleries to be collects of paintings and sculptures. However, this particular art gallery amazed me. It was not your tradition gallery, it brought beauty to various arts such as digital media, photographs and your traditional paintings and sculptures. It was not just paintings on a wall, there were videos, modern photographs with a new meaning and non traditional art work.

      Pictured above is my favorite exhibit at the gallery. I do not recall who created this, however, I was intrigued by the beauty it portrayed. To me this piece shows that art is not limited to a certain space. Art does not have to stay in-between edges on a canvas, it can flow freely and go anywhere whether the floor or wall. 

      This acrylic painting "Order/Chaos" by Hewit Harchick was interesting to me. The image of the lady and the way her eyes are covered leaves order in her life. She likely does not know what is covering her eyes or what is going on directly infant of her. To the viewer, it looks like there is some sort of monster's arm covering her eyes. From the title, I assume that she is being hidden from chaos. It is interesting because cannot see what is going on, but neither can I. It left me wondering what type of chaos is going on and I am sure she is wondering the same thing. What can she be hiding from? The beauty of this image is that it left me pondering about it beyond by first glance. 

      Another exhibit that I enjoyed, but unfortunately did not get a photo of was Rob Moore's Ink Bias. His project brought beauty to tattoos. Tattoos are very common in modern culture but can often be generalized as trashy and distasteful. However, Moore's photograph comparison highlighted the beauty of the individual and then revealed their tattoos. The affect it had on me was that the tattoos seemed significant to the beauty of the person.