1. The Title of the exhibition that was at the Albright Knox Art Museum was Erin Shirreff.
2. The theme of the exhibit seemed to be pieces that represented Form.
The Gallery:
1. The exhibit consisted of five rooms and the lighting in the gallery was well lit in the main room of the exhibition. In the four other rooms that were used, two were dark (One using a television, and one using a projector to display pieces). Out of the other two rooms, one was well lit and the other was dim lit, and very quaint. All rooms seemed to use a spotlight on each piece of art, except for the two dark rooms.
2. The wall color in the main room was (bright white), in the room with the television (black), in the room with the projector (brown), in the room with the photos of clay knives (bright white), and in the room with the photos of people looking at art (forest green).
3. tables were used in the interior architecture to display two steel sculptures, the rest of the artwork was hung on the walls.
4. The movement didn't flow very well for this exhibit, in fact I had to check each info tag to make sure the work in the other four rooms were still part of the exhibit (they were).
The Artwork:
1. The artwork was arranged with all of the sculptures in the main room of the exhibit, two separate rooms had pictures but they were different concepts (hence the different rooms), the other two rooms; one used a projector, the other used a television.
2. The artworks are similar in that either they were scultures, or photos of sculptures that represented a theme of form. The only art that was different that I liked were the photos of people looking at art in the Albright Knox. These themselves put a different perspective on form.
3. The artoworks are different in that they use different media. The sculptures used Scraps from a metal cutting process, the photos of sculptures depicted sculptures made of clay, and the pictures of people looking at art depict humans as a form.
4. The sculptures were not framed, but were either hung on the walls or leaned up against the walls. The pieces that were framed used black frames, and were very clean and modern looking.
5. The artwok was identified and labeled with white paper tags that stuck on the wall near each piece. The info. for the pictures of the people looking at art was actually text painted on the wall of the room that they were in.
6. Aside from being in separate rooms, the actual spacing between pieces in the same room ranged from three feet between pictures to ten feet between sculptures.
Art Criticism:
1. The three pieces have an excellent theme of form, although the second two are sculpted from different materials by Shirreff, and the first a photograph of someone else's sculpture they represent form well.
2. I see a form of a boulder sculpted in the first photo, with detail to texture. The second photo depicts the form of a knife (molded out of clay). The third is an abstract form created out of steel scrap metal.
3. The elements of texture and implied shape are used in photo one. Texture being that of a boulder and implied shape being the shapes formed when light is shined at the boulder which is what Shirreff did to capture the image. The element of form is really evident in photo two because we can see how the blade is arced and golds its form. Implied shape is used in photo three because pieces are cut out of the steel that are circular or semi circular, and when you walk around the sculpture, the shapes change based on the material behind them.
4. I don't see anything in the work as far as metaphor or symbols but the metal piece in picture three reminds me of the water jet class that I took at ECC when I went for machining. The Jetstream of water could cut steel into even more intricate shapes than these, but its the same princeble.
5. I think Sherriff was trying to say that no matter what form we take on, we are all here and can be expressed in any way. Each piece is made out of different material, and its kind of like humans in that we are all created looking different from one another but we can express similar feelings.
Documenting:
These are some pictures of what I experienced during my visit
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