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Today we visited the Met Breuer and a couple different galleries to meet alumni and talk about their journeys. To begin the day, we went to an exhibition titled “Delirious: Art at the Limits of Reason, 1950-1980”.I read a critique on this exhibition online before class and I was very interested in seeing it in person. The second I walked in the room I had the premonition: there was going to be an Eva Hesse piece in this show (it’s one of my weird little talents). I was curious because I absolutely ADORE Eva Hesse, but I wasn’t so sure what she was doing in an exhibition about delirium. To me, her pieces are always very clean and organized, which is part of her charm for me. However, when I saw the piece that was in the exhibition (shown in the first image), I understood why she was included. Not only was the piece itself interesting in that it disorients the viewer, but the process that Hesse had in making it, which was always very careful and calculated, was also very hypnotic. When you do the same motion for a long time, especially when creating art, it inhabits your body, almost taking over and causing you to go onto a trance. When I am doing wrapping works such as what Eve Hesse sometimes worked with, I have to set myself a timer or else I’ll get lost in the process, which I find very therapeutic. That was when I began realizing that sometimes it wasn’t just the pieces that caused the viewer delirium, but sometimes also the processes and practices that the artist used causing their own delirium or trace-like state. This was particularly interesting for me when I went back and look at the pieces of the Brazilian artists involved in the show that were involved in therapy as well. Their geometric structures seemed to have a new meaning to me, a way of organizing the crazy world around themselves and those they were working with, as well as a way to escae from reality for a while. We then visited the Pace Prints and Franklin Parrasch galleries to meet with alumni. In Pace Prints, what was most interesting to me was seeing one of the people who made me want to be an art major again. It sort of brought my art journey at Drew into more of a full circle and made me realize that people my age could also be successful in the art world. At Franklin Parrasch, I really enjoyed the exhibition that was up which was all centered on the theme of aliens and space (see the title of the exhibition in the last image shown). During my time in New York City so far, I’ve noticed that I tend to be more interested in exhibitions that are based on themes or eras than on a particular person. This may be due to the fact that I like variation, or that I like themes in artwork, but I also just enjoy seeing multiple peoples’ takes on the same ideas.

Join us @filmstreams for the on-time screening of "Eva Hesse" on Jan. 31, followed by an artist panel discussion. The documentary chronicles the brief life and groundbreaking work of Eva Hesse in the 60s. @bemiscenter will be there, too to talk about their fab upcoming exhibitions. @evahessedoc #evahess

A drawing based from a photo of artist, Eva Hess (1936-1970). #robertjharrisart #evahess #drawingfromaphoto #derwentgraphik #illustrationart #womenartists #minimalistartist #postminimalism #2016drawing #peopledrawing #artofdrawing #pendrawing #drawing

Eva Hess and Sol LeWitt