Gallery Smattery

I began my trek at McCormick Gallery, which represents local artists Bernard Williams, Isak Applin, Andrea Myers and Jenn Wilson. I didn't write down the name of the artist I was interested in during my tour of this gallery, but his/her sculptures of the anthropomorphized blobs were fantastic. I couldn't imagine a better method to sculpt with plungers and lightbulbs. I prefer to pay attention to details of sculptures/paintings/photographs that are highly technical and aesthetically pleasing. These blobs reminded me of the homunculus drawings in medical textbooks.

While sucking down on my ringpop, I headed upstairs to the Andrew Rafcas gallery representing Wendy White's paintings titled French Cuts. I must say I was not intrigued by these paintings. They reminded me of cheap-looking, kitsch graffiti that kids buy as an excuse for clothing at state fairs. I mustered enough strength (thanks RingPop) at this gallery to digest the paintings and look for something that might catch my eye. I came to the conclusion that not all art is created equal and if I am not interested initially, spending 2 more minutes with the piece probably won't change my mind. Don't judge a book by its' cover? Maybe, maybe not. As in Malcolm Gladwell's book Blink, human's have the capacity to gauge someone or something quickly given few inputs.

My star, maybe my idol of the night was Megan Greene and her Audubon drawing series, whose work was being shown at the Carrie Seacrist gallery. I adored these twisted and dissected paintings/illustrations of birds. I was wholly amazed by this work because of the craftmanship, the color palette, and the use of encyclopedic entries as a beginning point of reference.




















Finally, I made my way over to G.R. N'Namdi Gallery, who is representing Angelbert Metoyer. This work was made oftwo distinct bodies of work: splatter-style paintings and illustrations of horses/men. The writing accompanying the work was really difficult and nearly meaningless to digest, but the work itself was intriguing. I believe the artist was using imagery to question racism in America, with one illustration of a man wearing a KKK mask as evidence of this. In his artist statement he tried to develop the story about the "sprectre of racism."