Visiting Artist-Alix Pearlstein

I'm not sure what to think of this month's visiting artist. Some of her work I really liked and some of it, I just didn't get.

I'm not sure if I liked the "Two Women" piece. I thought it was weird and kind of creepy. But it made me think about how obsessed we get with people and how when you're really into somone you'll look at pictures of them all the time, hoping for something more to happen.

"Distance" was interesting. I liked seeing the scene from two different viewpoints. I didn't really understand why everything was happening or what the purpose was of this piece. But I thought it was different and mysterious, so I wanted to find out more.

"Forsaken" was the easiest piece to understand. It was the most obvious of everything we watched. I liked how a lot of her pieces were set in the white studio. It was easier to focus on what was happening between the characters without all of the background noise diverting your attention.

Overall, I liked what I saw...mostly. Some of it I didn't get at all. But I like that because it makes me want to find out more about the work. It makes me want to research the artist more and find out why they're doing what they're doing.

Stiff Lace

I really enjoyed the Stiff Lace show but for this blog I'm going to write about Janissa Hamilton's pieces. I really liked the lightboxes because I felt like they were self-portraits, even though different models were used. The lightboxes looked like windowpanes, so you feel almost like a voyeur looking in at the artist's life. I liked the snapshots that were hanging up everywhere. I feel like the portraits were giving us insight into who the artist is inside while the snapshots were suppsed to represent the artists life, and everything that is a part of their life, including the small, everyday things like a sign, or a car that don't seem important at all. I thought the snapshots hanging everywhere was a cool idea. I like the idea of hanging them everywhere, being surrounded by the artists life. I noticed some of the prints were framed, while others were not. I thought that maybe it was because they were more important than others or they had more significance to the artist. Overall, the print quality of the photos, in the lightboxes, looked really good although you could tell they were digital prints because some of them looked too good while the snapshots were more realistic in showing normal, everyday life.