MFA Thesis Show

Overall I thought the show was ok content wise. I really enjoyed the portrait photographs to the right as you entered the gallery. I admired the quality of the photograph, the lighting, the way it was shot all that good stuff. The portraits were shot against a black background which creates a simple straightforward presentation. In my thesis research I have found that this is common thread with which I gravitate towards. Many of the photographs I shot contain a similar aesthetic. I did not relate to the content in the same way. I was not attracted to much else in the show, that does not mean the other works in the show were not good, but neither the content nor the physical qualities of the work generated interest.



The space I thought could have been better, I think this shows how important it is to setup the gallery space in a specific way. There is a rhythm or melody which goes along with the show. The impact each piece has on each other can be both good or bad. With this in mind I did not like the first room to the right. It contained very large and when I say large I mean freaking huge paintings on every wall. What bothered me was not the paintings themselves but the relationship of the paintings to the size of the wall and the size of the room. I can understand how the artist may have wanted to create a overwhelming sense in the room but I just seemed like to much. There was no room to breath you could not even get back far enough to really absorb the paintings. I felt like I was sitting at the front row of the movie theater and there were screens all around me. These problem could have been a result of having assigned walls.



The floating walls in the middle I thought were a bit cumbersome. I thought the idea of the walls was a thoughtful in that it broke up the space and allowed for more work to be shown. I think the idea struggles in the placement of the walls. They are right in the middle and quite large. Maybe it should be one wall or that the wall is place perpendicular to a grounded wall. I am not really sure what the answer is.