Lee Ufan

I saw the Lee Ufan show at the Guggenheim last Friday. It was truly a beautiful show. I thought it was so appropriate that he chose the Guggenheim for his show titled "Marking Infinity". The architecture of the building has always made it seem like it could spiral on forever to me. I loved so many parts of the show but I especially loved the very last part in the annex. It was Ufan's "Dialogue" series that really stood out to me. Especially the piece entitled "Dialogue-Space" (2011). Ufan had painted three grey squares onto the walls if an empty room. The paintings seemed to be floating in the room rather than being apart of the walls. I was amazed by the effect that was created by only using paint and some light. Each square looked as though it was a single paint stroke but it was actually a lot of different strokes that took him days. His colors were perfectly blended from dark to light.

I had a great time at his show! I even bought a couple of postcards to pit up in my apartment!

Color Wheel

Making this color wheel was a lot harder than I thought! I'm glad I did it though. It was a lot of fun to see what you can do with color and inspired me to start painting!

Witness- A Look Back To The Future

It was hard for me to choose just one piece from the show that I liked but I decided to go with Jon Kessler  piece. Kessler uses old souvenir postcards from New York City that had the World Trade Center in the skyline and put them on a rotating conveyor belt. Every time the postcards came to a certain point in the cycle it would brush against a small camera. The result was the camera zooming straight into the towers just as the planes that hit them did. I found the piece to be extremely haunting and ironic. It was haunting to have the view of the tragedy from inside the plane that hit the towers. I found it ironic that a tourist's gift to a family member could be used in such an impacting way. On another note, Jon Kessler is going to be a part of this year's Performa Biennial which I am very excited about!