Agustin Lara

Gallery Review 1

March 8^th, 2016

Art 350s

BFA Midway Exhibition

Today I went to the BFA exhibition and was really intrigued by it.  What was really appealing about this gallery was the diversity that was going on from piece to piece.  Upon entering the exhibit the first piece that caught my eye was Break A Leg by Kara Savant.  What if found interesting was the fact that she combined the leg with a picture frame.  The way that the sculpture was setup it seemed like the chair was trying to pull the leg out of the frame but just cant seem to do it.  I’m not sure if this was the same artist or not, but another piece that I kept finding myself at was If you forget me.  The object that was pushing me away yet pulling me back in was the severed foot.  Even though I knew it was a fake foot it just looked gruesome, as if someone cut off a persons foot and skinned it. Nathaniel Benjamin’s Body of Work was a great addition because his prints reminded me of some of my drawings that I have done in the past, even though his pieces were all woodblock prints.  When it comes to my personal work I also like to make abstract drawings that sometimes depict the real in a different manner and that is what I see in Benjamin’s work as well. Teri Barnes ceramic work was the only work that didn’t appeal to me as much as the others.  Now that being said I don’t mean they were bad works or anything like that I just didn’t see them truly change the space they were in.  Granted the ones on the wall proved to be a bit more interesting than the one sitting of the bench.  It just didn’t seem like the right context for her work.