#critique3

1 > Steel structure from “Meditation I.” Example for what the structure will look like for “Reflect, Experience”

2 > Example of a traditional sari. Possible clothing option for performance aspect of “Reflect, Experience”

At this stage, most decisions have been made about the content of the project and what needs to be made for the presentation of the work. Now it is just a matter of creating everything and preparing all the parts for the installation.

The major insight I was able to get from this critique was about the layout of the installation for “Reflect, Experience.” My original plan was to have a singular steel structure open on one end to allow access into the space, but it seemed to plain and obvious. I want it to seem more like an environment that exists separately from the gallery it resides in. For this reason, I’ve been considering creating three structures that would be placed in a triangular form with the entrances to each area open to the center. This way there are three separate spaces for individuals to walk into and experience rather than just being open to the entire public. From the feedback of the class, I will be moving forward with this idea.

For the same piece, the question about performance came up again. I will be performing by interacting with people. Openings are something I look forward to because it gives me a chance to interact with other people interested in art and also gives me the chance to see and speak with people I don’t normally get to see. The focus, therefore, will be on those interactions. I will be talking to people that I know and am familiar with as well as those that I have never seen before, having a conversation, and giving them a flower as an invitation to then walk into the space and place a flower in one of the bud vases. This act is meant to be a way to solidify the memory of the opening into the memory of those attending, but is also a comment on the social atmosphere of art openings where artwork is ironically more difficult to look at and experience.

Congratulations Senior Seminar!

You have “rigorously investigated your previous work, your current interests, and your unique story and voice” (quoted from the syllabus course description). Each of you have struggled and persisted in your own particular ways and are leaving this course living more thoughtfully into your art selves than you began. In so many ways, senior seminar has been six custom courses, and each of you have grown in different ways based on what you needed and I am delighted to have had this time with you.

Take your summer time and use it to refresh. Take advantage of this gift of time and space to continue to push yourselves as artists to give your work the depth that is impossible with the kind of deadlines that a semester pushes on you. 

Images from our final critique, borrowed from your blogs, from top:

image by Melanie

drawing by Adrianna 

working progress of senior show project by Savannah

series of works by Avery

work by Devan

workby Bailey