New Weather

I attended the art show that collided with the musicians' response to New Weather. I felt like the entire experience was incredible and a great success. There were many different sections of the night, it was not only a change in music but I change in performance. I greatly enjoy the mix of music and art together to aid to one anothers' meanings. The pieces took on a life of their own, from the depth and mystery of the charcoal drawings to to the impulsive gestural abstract paintings. The two artists fit very well together for the show in showing a controlled and hesitant approach and ease to a fierce and primitive manner. Yet the two artists worked so well together with the same music in the background. The large charcoal drawings were hung right to your eye level, where you stand face to face with these massive grey sea figures. I felt like they produced a tone so eerie and mysterious. I loved this work the most. The style of it was so intriguing on a formal level, the viewer is immediately drawn. As the viewer observes and reads the title, they can easily read into the artist’s subtle decisions for themselves. It was an interesting choice to place the statue that stood in the first room, with the many triangular images that stacked on and on in different scales, because it would have paralleled well with the abstract paintings. Just like the spiraled dress statue would have paralleled more with the charcoal drawings, but the curator must have placed them in the space as such to compliment and unite the artist’s works.