Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Preparing to visit the galleries

Questions for Joseph Carroll:
1. How do you decide which photographers to showcase in your gallery?
2. Is their certain types of artwork that you find more interesting than others?
3. What was your favorite exhibit in the gallery and why?

After looking through the websites about each gallery, I took a special interest in the Samson Projects and Steven Zevitas gallery. As soon as I clicked on the website for the Samson Project, I was immediately intrigued. The work on the front page was "Sims-like" and virtual. Although I do not know enough about the artists that are featured in the Samson gallery, I can predict that their work will be very new age and experimental.  The Steven Zevitas gallery website caught my eye immediately as well. I decided to browse through Chris Ballantyne's work, and I liked every piece that I saw. His paintings were very political, in that they were mostly based around the environment and the future of nature. My favorite, Untitled, Parking Lot (Scenic Overlook) had a very clear statement: we must leave the forests out of modernization.

1 comment:

  1. this is great haley! your questions for joseph should spark some good discussion and you seem like you know where you want to look first tomorrow. (plus those two galleries are right near each other!)

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