2D Blog

I found this exhibition particularly inspiring of the ones that I've seen over the course of this year because of the artists. The artists are my peers, students who've been in my cohort for the past four years and it is wonderful to see their art working together in an exhibition. What struck me most about this exhibit is the talent in each set of pieces. The works look like they belong in famous galleries or in magazine ads. The exhibit that I enjoyed most was the series titled Vixen. I felt most passionate about this series because I think the execution was extremely well done. The quality of the photographs is very high and the message that the series communicates is clear yet can be interpreted different by each audience member viewing it. For me, this was especially salient with everything happening in the media in regards to sexual assault, attack on feminism, and victim blaming. The works all together in one exhibit was extremely well done because though the pieces

I attended the artist talk by Jim Condron on his exhibition "Picking up the Pieces". For some reason, I expected the artist talk to be super formal and structured. This was not what occurred over the 75 minutes in which Jim Condron invited us into his private life as much as he could. Not only did his pieces expose some of his internal emotions, but his conversation with art critic, Ann Landi, and the gallery director was intimate and told of the experiences that led up to his creation of this series. It was especially interesting how Condron did not really want to talk it seemed. He described all the defeat that he went through in his early career and what brought him to this point, almost as though he felt that he was still not worthy of having a crowd gather to hear what he thought and felt. I was moved by his admiration for his mentor, who it turns out, was sitting right in front of me. From the questions that were asked, it seems as though the majority of the audience