Shayla Fiscus
ARTZ 406: Gallery Professional Practices
Analyze Faculty Exhibition -1/27/17
Functional
Considerations: This exhibition
brings forth many different mediums and art techniques for the viewer to engage
in and bare witness too. The faculty show gives a wide spectrum of mediums
including watercolor painting, oil painting, new media, video, drawing with
collage, printmaking with collage, sculpture, ceramics, and installation. The
traffic flow created in the gallery has transformed the space for its audience
to circle throughout the space and to be able to fully engage in the work on
display. The materials and techniques used to create the many works ranges from
fragile to strong and durable. The floor plan allows for a wide range of audiences
to come in and experience the space and the typography is easily visible.
Formal
Considerations: The colors and installation of the art
works displayed within the exhibit creates a visual unity of elements and
components. The powerful use of color in many of the artworks exhibited is
balanced in such a way to pull the viewer throughout the space, motivating the
eye to continue to explore. The rich use of installation overpowers the
environment and draws upon curiosity for the viewer to experience and explore.
The typography used within the exhibition space is not overpowering the actual
art and delicately compliments the work as a counterpart of creation. Having
text labels available of the faculty studio artists’ works allows the student
body and audience to learn more about the works on display.
Conceptual
Considerations: The overall message developed within
this exhibition is how to channel the ability to become consciously aware of
your materials; in such a way to masterly adapt, manipulate and perform
art making skills and techniques that identify aspects of a commonality. The
commonality shared among these works educates the viewer to think critically,
explore, determine, and identify with the art and its processes. Each work
individually represents a technique and skill that has become mastered to an
extent within the artist and transposes outward from the art, received by the
viewer experience. The faculty exhibition not only reflects art work but
educates the viewer into a mindful experience of the environment and its
influences.
Visitor
Considerations: I feel the installation artwork and the
new media artwork may be difficult for those who are younger than 20 and older
than 26. These are experiences that are identified within the art community but
not all may understand how to interpret or respect these works. I think the art
works that rely heavily on concept can be difficult to determine and for some
uneasy to wrap the mind around. The faculty chose works of art that together
build up a strong collective body of artworks. This exhibition is designed to
be enjoyed independently or communally with others. It provides insight into
the minds of our faculty studio professors which in return is beneficial to the
student body and community. If I could change anything within the gallery space
it would be to make the gallery larger, for the viewer to actively explore the
space more.
Good response, Shayla. I like that you are attempting to think about what the works share since they are so varied. This is one of the most difficult aspects for me when writing about a unified vision for the art department. Do you think in the future we should insist on including the art faculty statements in the exhibition as models for the artists?
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