Art Gallery

Outside of the Zhou B Gallery and Cafe

  

The gallery itself was rather quiet, and not many people were really about in any one place.  This room was the largest, and most of the rest of the site was spread across 5 different floors of thin winding hallways, so you would only occasionally meet other people as you passed.

This particular piece was a Mixed media tri-fold panel, given the title "Celebration", unfortunately without the artist's name or contact info on it.  It is a multimedia piece that is made with what appears to be a combination of oil paints, metal, and a kind of clear resin gloss that was used in a large quantity of the works shown by them.  The metal and the paint were most likely layered on alternatively, and then a final coat of the clear resin was applied to the piece as a topcoat.  the piece follows the use of asymmetrical balance, and applies the use of vibrant hues of cool colors in the negative space and gray tones for the shapes which are the main focus for the piece.  In regards to the concept, it almost appeals to me as if the shapes were of people, and that the vivid and almost happy colors alongside of the title  suggest that there is something joyous occurring, indeed worthy of being remembered through "Celebration".

This particular piece comes out of a concentration done by Robin Monique Rios, titled "The Road To..." and worked digitally.  This particular piece follows in the theme that it is created based off of a collective of images, mainly focusing on the use of medical scans, combined with natural images.  In craft, this is a piece which uses the abilities of photoshop to combine together images taken by the artist through a combination of layering, cutting out sections, and varying the opacity of the layers being used.  The use of the natural images inside of the the different lines of the brain used in this piece seemed to suggest to me that on the person's mind is the natural world, perhaps that the brain is drawn to the beauty that is the nature.  In regards to composition, it is a large piece that is meant to draw attention, centered in the frame and using the dark of the negative space to draw the viewer into the details within the brain.  I personally found it amusing that the artist used the same butterfly in their work as the one that I used recently in my own piece, "Butterfly".

These two pieces were both mixed media collages created by Frances Temchin, and labeled together as "Untitled."  The pieces both appear to be a layering of paint over images that are torn and cut from various sources.  In regards to composition, I enjoy the yellow emphasis placed in the left image and the splash of blue in the right image, which both serve to draw the eye for the pieces they refer to.  In regards to concept, I am unsure of the theme, but they both caught my attention despite both being only about 5 x 7 in size.