While I was at the midway for the first time I found out that art can be very weird and that art can almost be considered anything. There where video pieces of art work, collages, paintings, abstract art, modern art and objects like a metal star that was hanging on the wall and a ticket window with bullet holes in it.
The one piece that caught my attention the most was a piece done by Kelly Walker called Chess player 2002 CD-rom collection of Darwin and Geri Reedy. This piece was a very large piece it was originally done on a CD rom. It is of a colorful piece with patterns of color going in every direction red ,blue ,purple ,green ,orange and white are some of the colors that I see in this piece. It is a repeated pattern there are two of the over all images placed next to each other. Behind the collage of shapes and many colors there is a man standing with his hands in his pockets. He is wearing a striped hooded sweater he is also repeated multiple times standing behind the main image. The piece starts to show shapes in the many different colors and shows many patterns as well. I’m not sure why Kelly Walker calls it chess player but I think it’s the guy that’s pictured in the piece of art work.
I couldn’t find very much information on Kelly walker I do know that she is a multimedia art because her art works very from different mediums. I did find a quote of hers “ Sometimes I’ll present a work to the public and listen to the responses then pull it back, shape it and put it back out” I found this quote interesting because most artists put a piece of art work out and never go back and rework things on that piece of art work. I know that when I put a piece of my work out I usually never rework it. Another quote of kellys “I really don’t like the term appropriation’ says walker , while taking a break from prepping for a current show at greene naftali. (http;//nymag.com/nymetro/arts/art/11264/index7.htm)
This feels like a good start, but I think you could have gone somewhat further with the description itself. Was the image evocative of anything else? What were the patterns of color like? What is the effect of having the image of the man repeated and blotted out with patterns? Does the pattern enhance the image and add something to it, or does it turn the man into just another pattern?
ReplyDeleteI am not too surprised that you had a hard time finding info on the artist - that can be a problem when dealing with new and young artists. Did you look through the materials Midway had set aside on the artists in the show?
Also... this seems to be a couple of hundred words short of the assigned word count...