Lots of Art Lookin’

On Tuesday in the morning, we went over our concepts for our next project. My friend and I were a little late to class, however, because we had to get properly dressed.. as our professors! We dressed up like our two fine arts professors, Audrey Goldstein and Randal Thurston, for an early Halloween costume, since we have both of their classes on Tuesday. They were totally surprised and they loved the costumes, hopefully enough to get us some extra credit. 🙂

Later that day, we went with Randal to a bunch of galleries right nearby on Newbury Street. Some had art that interested us more than others, and some was really great. I enjoyed Julian Opie’s work at Barbara Krakow Gallery. There was sculpture, digital work, and mosaic work on display. The sculptures (like the one in this picture, which was as tall as me!) were hand painted! The mosaics were also meticulously done. I really like the graphic nature  of the work combined with the serious skill and craft. The digital pieces we portraits similar to this on a screen, that just looked like paintings until you stared at them for a while, and they would move just a tiny bit, like blink or shift! It was neat. I also enjoyed Scott Prior’s work, which we saw at Alpha Gallery.

For Contemporary Trends this week, our assignment was to go out and look at public art in Boston. Compared to other cities (New York especially), Boston has very little public art, and the art we do have is usually a bronze memorial from 100 years ago! However, there are in fact some current pieces up and around Boston, and we found them! I went to the Convergence show at the Christian Science Center by Boston Sculptors, which was really cool. There were all kinds and sizes of sculptures that were site-specific, meaning they are purposefully placed and integrated into their environment. I got there just in time too, the show was taken down at the end of this week!