Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Extra Credit: Visit an Exhibition & Analyze

Extra Credit Gallery Visit & Analysis: Worth One HW Assignment
Due by last class, February 23rd. 


Your task is to visit one of the below NYC galleries, take some time with the whole exhibition and answer the following questions about one of the 2-Dimensional works in the show.
You can email me the answers, written out in paragraph form, along with image of the artwork, and a selfie of you in the gallery to prove that you were there to absorb the culture in person.

Note: Make sure you note  the exhibition dates and gallery hours before visiting the show!


Questions:

1. Please list the details of the exhibition; name of artist, exhibition, gallery.

2. Please list the details of the artwork; title, materials, size.

3. Give a general description of the arwork.

4. How is the element of Line used to divide up the compositon, lead the eye through the space, etc?

5. How are the shapes arranged in the space to create unity, and to create visual balance?

6. Talk about the scale relationship of the parts to one another and to the whole image.

7. Does the artist attempt to create an illusion of space? If so, how? 

8. If you were to say that the image is concerned with one design principle above others, which would that be?(Unity, Balance, Scale & Proportion, Contrast &
Emphasis, Rhythm) Please explain.

9. What do these design choices suggest about the meaning of the work?





Djordje Ozbolt More paintings about poets and food at Hauser & Wirth Through FEB 21



Hauser & Wirth
32 East 69th Street
New York NY 10021
Gallery hours:
Tuesday – Saturday, 10 am – 6 pm
Location map





Tal -R Cheim & Read

Tal R: Altstadt Girl
January 15 – February 14, 2015
Cheim & Read 547 West 25th Street
Tuesday - Saturday 10:00 am - 6:00 pm
Agustin Fernandez

Mitchell Algus Gallery    132 Delancey Street, 2nd Floor   New York, 10002    (212) 844-0074    office@mitchellalgusgallery.com

Paintings and works on paper January 25 – March 8, 2015
Wed – Sun, 11am – 6pm




Parra

Parra
Yer So Bad


Solo Exhibition
557C West 23rd Street

January 8, 2015 through February 7, 2015
HOURS
Tuesday through Saturday, 11am to 6pm


Mexican pulp art















Uche Okeke "Works on Paper, 1958-1993" at Skoto Gallery
Ends February 21st, 2015




Mixed Media: Shaun O'Dell "By Cloud" at Susan Inglett Gallery
Ends January 31st, 2015


http://nancymargolisgallery.com/
Painting: Heidi Howard "Portraits from 2014" at Nancy Margolis Gallery
Ends February 14th, 2015


Devin Troy Strother "Space Jam" at Marlborough Gallery (Chelsea)
Ends February 14th, 2015


Ganzeer "ALL AMERICAN" at Leila Heller Gallery
Ends February 21st, 2015


Cullen Washington Jr. "Space Notations" at B2OA
Ends February 21st, 2015