I visited the Institute of Contemporary Art today to see the Easternsports Exhibit, an installation piece that projected films onto four screens that enclosed the area where I am sitting in the picture below. For more information about this exhibit, click the following link to read my analysis of it:https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WIyaHlNwg24bQ_d3xiSQ7fyL-ftfND-Nrd3PtSlJIY4/edit
Convergence Exhibit- September 27, 2014
Today I visited Convergence in the Leonard Pearlstein Gallery, which is in the Urban Annex here on Drexel University's campus. It was created by artist Jeremy Holmes, and was an installation piece that filled the entire space. Viewers could walk in, around, over, and under this sculpture, immersing themselves in it. "Using five varieties of North American hardwoods, Holmes explores the contrasts between the abstract shapes of bent wood and the geometric rooms the piece inhabits. Holmes uses space in original and unexpected ways, filling voids in interiors that would otherwise go unnoticed and allowing the viewer to experience the work from within. His work pushes interactions between the viewer and site and evokes a new curiosity in a traditional material,"(Leonard Pearlstein Gallery website). I really liked the piece, because it fascinated me that wood, which is typically thought of as a brittle material, could be manipulated into such curvilinear shapes and have such fluidity.
With fellow Design I student, Mary Elizabeth Hoffman, inside the exhibit.
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