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As a student at PSU, we get to experience a lot of cool event in our department. One of those events are our gallery exhibits. As a class, we went to see David Ingram's exhibit for this post. In doing so, we were asked to look at it two ways. First, as an artist; and second, as an art teacher.
As an artist, I definitely felt myself being drawn to the more intricate designs. I loved his usage of pattern and repetition. Everything looked well thought out and planned, and the organization was beautiful. All of the pieces came together really well. I do have to say, however, that his mixed usage of ceramic pieces as well as wood pieces made it seem like it was almost two different shows; even two different artists. I think that while both types of work are really strong and complete on their own, it makes the show look a little crowded to show them both together.
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I would consider myself more of a realism artist, so seeing the use of more geometric shapes was really interesting. Before I got to college, I was pretty set in my ways and did not want to really open up to the idea of going outside my comfort zone. It's shows like these that kinda help to open me up to using other ideas. The artist also had a unique way of glazing his pots that added to the three dimensional quality. I chose the picture on the right because from a distance it actually looks more like a drawing.
The wood pieces do provide a great opportunity to students, though. In class we talked about using them in coordination with Escher's optical illusions, and even including them, perhaps, with a wood technology course were the school to have one. I know when I was a student, I was really excited to do anything new and unusual in art, and wood was not something we even studied in our art class in high school. Plus, for the boys in the class, this will give them an opportunity to work with things other than drawing or painting (something I think they would really enjoy). |
All in all, I thought it was a really neat show.