Response to what's your plan?

The work I wish to include in the show:

-four 8x11" inch pieces of work (spray-paint and coloured tape on "invisible paper")

- one 18x18 inch canvas (spray-painted)


I have not determined how the four 8x11 inch pieces are going to hang on the walls. I have discussed it breifly with Mr.Brooks and I believe it's best I wait to get the work in the gallery before I come to a conclusion on how it will be hung. The canvas, however, can be hung regularly against the wall.

Response to the feild trip

The field trip last week enlightened me to what keeping a gallery in boston is like now-a-days. I didn't know that is could be so difficult to get people to get into your gallery and stay. Also, the time and skill it takes to create a gallery that works as a whole, getting multiple artists to donate work that will tie each room together. I was also impressed with a particular artist's work. I believe her name began with an R... Roberta or something. She had some impressive work. :)

Response to preparing to visit the galleries

What brought you to bring such a wide variety of artists into the gallery? Is that what you usually look for, variety?


The Oh+T gallery and the Boston sculptures gallery are my two priorities to visit. The Oh+t gallery appears to be very eye-catching within the fact that it has very vibrant colors and a unique use to pattern. the Boston sculptures gallery also seems interesting because it too is very attention grabbing and will be more emersive becuase it is in 3-d.

Response to Articles abouyt the "Boston art scene"

Due to the economy, it sounds like it has been more and more expensive for an art gallery owner to keep his or her gallery. Likewise, it has been increasingly more difficult for a artist to get his or her art into a gallery. The way this will change the Boston art world is it will force artists and gallery owners to be more careful and selective with how they spend their money in efforts to keep their gallery open or how they sell thier work. When I visited the ICA with Mr.Brook's installation art class this winter, I saw Tara Donovan's exhibit. The art gallery was very quiet, with exception of a few whispering people veiwing Donovan's astonishing work. Her massive peices were either placed against the walls, sat in the center of the floor, or hung from the ceiling, but all the walls were snow white.

Response to Week 3

This week was a very productive week for me. I was able to get a lot done and found the format I want to be working in. My technique is I place multiple colored tapes onto "invisible paper", cut out a silhouette of a person, place that silhouette over the taped paper, then spray black spray-paint over the entire thing. When I peel away the cut out, what's left is a colorful silhouette of what was on top of the paper before I spray painted it. I found this technique by accident because I knew I wanted to do something with lots of color, but I didn't want to paint. In my 2-d art class I had been playing with this colored tape and saw it was easy to place down to create cool designs, so I thought I could take is a step further and make more interesting designs by spray-painting around a stencil of some kind. I also found some of my inspiration from the apple commercial adds.

Response to Surviving the Critique

I believe a formal critique where we all sit down in a circle and talk about each others work would be ineffective. We are all friends and in the private high school environment, people would be reluctant to be too critical of a classmate's work. According to this chapter and your past experiences, how can you get the most out of a critique of your own work? I think the most effective way to do a critique in our class environment would be to have people go around to each person's "station", take time to really reflect on how each person is conducting their work, then go back to their own individual station and anonymously write suggestions to future work and how you think they're doing so far. This would ensure everybody is participating in a productive way to the critique.

Response to Alternative Exhibition Formats Slideshow

Cai Guo-Quiang has an inspirational use of format in his work. He uses big numbers of real stuffed animals to grab the viewers attention, then keeps your attention by using movement in his work. Lastly, presenting his work as a photograph further emphasizes the feeling of movement in his work because it appears as if he's taken a picture of something as it is actually in motion. When I get back from break I plan to focus on a technique I discovered and enjoy. I draw with a sharpie on tracing-paper, then color on the other side with paint-pens. It gives the work a slightly 3-D look and gives me the opportunity to add more emotion to the drawings I traced.