student art show

i attended the student art show at texas a&m commerce on tuesday. here is my overall review of the show.

i felt that all the pieces accepted into the art show were very deserving.  there was a good mix of all different kinds of art. the only piece i was not a big fan of was the video piece, it was called "Human Architecture", while i understood the concept and thought it was a creative idea indeed, it just isn't necessarily the type of art that i am interested in.  i was very impressed with the wearable art in the show. there was a white dress that looked like it was crafted from trash bags and coffee filters, which i thought was very interesting because the dress looked very elegant. another wearable art project i liked, was "the roller skating tree". it was a dress, and the skirt of it had lots of leaves attached to it that gave it a nice ruffled look. the shoes were actual rollerblades with tree bark covering the entire skate. the only thing that i thought could have been better with this piece as the presentation.  it would have been really cool if the artist would have made a hanger from tree branches, instead of just using a regular wire hanger. there were many beautiful drawings in the show, my favorite drawing was one of a giant baby screaming.  the artist showed great skill and i really liked that they chose a large scale over a small or normal sized scale.  there was one active art piece that really impressed me, it was titled "For a Slice of my Life, Take Out a Knife." the artist used a knife block and each knife (models of knives, not actual knives) told a story from their life. i thought this was a very personal and interesting piece, nice creativity.  

now to my favs

"Linked" by Robert Turner was one of my overall favorites. this piece caught my eye immediately because as i entered the room i saw two chairs "linked" together and hanging upside down from the ceiling.  one chair was a sea-foam green color and the other was a baby pink color.  each chair had been covered in that popcorn ceiling stuff. the green chair had a light fixture attached to it, the pink had a green air vent cover. they were linked with one of those old light chains that normally attach to the ceiling at one end and the actual light fixture at the other.  in my eye, this piece represented the relationship between a man and a woman. the green acting as the male and the pink as the female. the attached parts were even similar to the male and female genitalia shapes, in some sense.  and the chain that connected the two reminded me of the idea that men and women will always be connected in some way.  i thought this was a very well thought out. way to go robert "ross" turner :)

 "Blue Trailer" by Ginger Cook was another unforgettable piece.  it was a cubism photo of a bright turquoise trailer house in a trailer park with a child's baby doll in the front right corner.  the doll had on a reddish pink color dress.  there was also a nice little pop of color on the turquoise trailer, a bright, very bold red number 5.  i really liked that she used the actual prints of the images she took to make the cubist image instead of digitally doing it in photoshop.  the way she displayed it was very nice too, it was a curved clear frame and this gave the entire image a nice look.  i would buy this piece and hang it in my home. i found myself drawn to it the entire night. this artist also had another photo piece in the show that i really liked, it was called "Man in the Hat." this was an image of an elderly man in a black bucket hat. it was the man's expression, or lack of one, that made it so beautiful. alsdoo the eyes were nice, they told a story of a man that seemed to be recalling a moment from a long time ago. his face made no expression, but his eyes told the story. she did a wonderful job of capturing this moment. jolly good show ginger :)

Joshua Robinson's "Make Me One With...." was pretty groovy. this work consisted seventeen hot dog buns painted or covered in something different. this piece had a nice child-like quality, it made me happy every time i looked at it :) i really liked the fact that each bun was very different from the one next to it.  it's like each bun represented a different type of person in the world.  my favorite bun was the fourth from the left, it was covered in a gold foil and had diamonds in the center of it.  it was pretty snazzy.  i also liked the second one from the right, it was made to look like neapolitan ice cream, which is something i enjoy eating very much.  i can't help but smile every time i look at this work, so thank you joshua robinson :)

the student art show rocked!