In the gallery I would like, if there is room, to put hanna and my hand painting in the gallery.  Here are some pictures of what it looks like right now and there will be very few difference between now and wed if any to the piece. 
   to the left is a close up of one of the canvases   Here is the hoe peice it would likly reach from celing to floor in the gallery but since it is vertical it will hopefully not take up alot of space where other peoples works would go.

Since I have grown to hate my original idea with the flowers i plan to try somehting new with them.  I am going to ry and mount the flowers onto a canvas which i will then use as a very 3D textural suface to do a spry paint abstract painting.  If this fails to look how i want it i have been working on aother abstrat painting that could take the flower paintings place in the gallery.  Either way both of these ideas would take up the space that a canvas would in the gallery.  The flower painitng would likly be on a bit of a bigger canvas than the hand painting ones but not by much and the abstract painting i have been working on is the same size canvas as the hand painting one. The individual canvases not all of them together.

Articles about the "Boston art scene".

Articles about the "Boston art scene".

This week you're reading several articles in preparation for next week's field trip to the South End galleries. In response to what you've read describe the shift that has been occurring over the past year in the Boston gallery world. How do you think these changes might affect the Boston art world, in general (artists, collectors, museums, schools, etc.) for better or worse?

There are alot of changes it seems, going on in the art gallery world.  Alot of closings and movings.  This i think has to do alot with the economic situation.  People are losing jobs, or making less money but rents for spaces are going up.  Galleries are forced to close for either a hwile until they can pay the rent or move to a cheaper location.  However as Joseph Carroll points out SSotheby's sold a house for 86 million dollars recently. My Aunt works for Southeby's and she has told me that even though the housing market is not doing well at all the very high end houses have not been effected quite as suverly.  It seems the extreamly wealthy still have spending money.  This in my mind means that they wont stop buying expensive artwork.  I think that these changes in gallery's will effect the area in differnet ways.  Because people who are not increadibly wealthy are holding on to thier money and not spending it fivolusly might not feel as though they can go to galleries or consider a percase which will effect the income of these galleries.  Art fairs were brought up in these articles.  This and the internet seem to be turinign into a new way for people to seek out art.  While this could hurt the galleries income if more poeple are going to art fairs and searching art online art and artist will start making a a name for themselves and i think that will come back in the galleries favor becasue there wont always be an art fair that day or a good enough view of some work online and if people feel an interest in an artist or a connection to the work i think they will make that trip to the gallery.

Have you ever been to an art gallery (not a museum)? Describe your experience there.

I honestly dont think ive been to a art galery.  Ive been to plenty of museums but never a gallery.

In your opinion, what do you think the role of the critique, as it's described in this chapter, could be in a class like ours?

The role of a critique os to give the artist your USEFUL criticisms about the piece.  It should be done during the process of the piece or at least with the opportunity after to change the piece.  This is an opportunity for outsiders to get a new look at the piece and as is says in the book, " provide solutions to perceived difficulties."  In our class i think that having people, especially since we are all working on very different projects, look at a persons work they can truly give an objective opinion and help the artist work through problems or pieces that might not be working.  A critique in our class could show a person a whole new way of looking at their piece and give them ideas for expansion and or improvement.

According to this chapter and your past experiences, how can you get the most out of a critique of your own work?

I think that while the critique is going on the artist should detach him or her self from the piece.  The important part of listening to a critique is being able not to take the criticisms personally or feel as though they are an insult but rather sit back and listen, taking in what people are saying.  Then after decide what critiques make sense to you, and how you can build off of them to make the piece wonderful.

How can you be a helpful participant in your classmates' critiques?

As the crituquer one should not state bland opiions about the peice.  They should not say things like, "I like this" or "this looks bad," it is incredibly important to give critisisms that the artist can build from, such as i liek this because ... or i dont like this because...  or i think if you changed this... the peice could really benifit in this way.

These are a few of the bracelets that i have been working on for the past few weeks.  I enjoyed making them for other people, finding out what color and style they wanted and making it to their liking.  I would continue to do this because its really fun and I really like making things that people love, but I need to work more on my project for the gallery which involves making a mass amount of paper flowers so i need to really start making a lot of those and will probably spend the remainder of the term doing so.

Over the break, take another look at the Alternative Exhibition Format slideshow. Think about which artist's work was the most interesting to you in terms of format. Make a post and talk about what the artist does with format, and why you think it is interesting. In addition talk about what you think the focus of your exploration will be in the weeks when you get back from break. Are you going to play with a specific process? Do you want to experiment with materials? Is there a theme you want to explore?

I thought that hidden relief by Sarah Sze was very interesting.  I think that the format s interesting because it looks chaotic but if the viewer stops and takes the time to look closely at each detail then they can recognize the intricacy of the piece.  After considering the details the viewer is can step back and see the whole piece's beauty as a whole.  This process that Sze makes the viewer go through is that makes it so interesting.  You can;t just look at the piece think a quick thought and be done. You are draw in.  You have to see that is making up this chaos.

When we get back from break i want to start working with different types os paper and make a ton of flowers.  I want tot assemble them in the corner of a room.  The flowers will go from the ceiling to the floor and look as though the flowers are bursting from the seem of the walls.  While doing this I also want to start making jewelry.  I collected a lot of shells over break and i want to make them into jewelry.

i thought about painting this on the green to yellow painting but i thought it would be better to draw it.

I originally thought it would look very cool if i could fade really dark purple into yellow.  However i decided that that would be very difficult because mixing purple and yellow makes brown.  So i decided that purple to red would have to work. I ended up liking it a lot.  i wanted to put very different colors in weird designs on top of it, but then i added the blue circle and hated it.  So I'm still trying to figure out what i want to do with it.

Because I didn't know what to do with the purple painting i decided to make this one. Green fading to yellow.  I think i will paint a yellow flower on the dark green part.  not sure yet i dont want to mess it up like idid with the purple.

this is the green paint i used after it dyed.  I like the way it looks