Sunday, August 28th was the Brauer Museum of Art’s opening reception for two new, and extremely different, exhibitions. External Reflections- Internal Wars and True to Form: Works from Chicago Sculpture International will be displayed six days a week at the Brauer Museum of Art until December 11th. The reception was filled with elderly art lovers, art majors, and freshman looking to fill one of their seven required fifth hour credits. Being both an art major and a freshman seeking to fill her fifth hour requirements, I found the reception simultaneously mundane and intriguing at the same time.
External Reflections- Internal Wars is a series of photographs taken by artist Louise Witkin-Berg in 1975. Louise’s photographs heavily utilize the technique of double exposure; a technique young artists are still trying to perfect to this day. As an aspiring graphic designer, Louise’s collection was incredibly fascinating as all of her photographs were taken and developed years before the invention of …show more content…
This alone encourages me to go beyond the surface level of brainstorming for my coming art pieces and motivates me to look critically at the art around me to possibly understand what its creator was experiencing at that moment in time. Attending the opening reception has opened my eyes to think deeper when I need inspiration for my next project.
Overall, the reception was rather inspiring if you could get past the lengthy speech accompanied by microphone technical issues. Both exhibits were thought provoking in their own sense; Louise’s double exposure photographs resonated with my love for visually compelling and graphic art. Her analogy of windows and mirrors heavily deals with an artist’s identity and their identity within their own creations and encourages me to look deeper into myself and my art to find the deeper hidden meanings that I might not even know
External Reflections- Internal Wars is a series of photographs taken by artist Louise Witkin-Berg in 1975. Louise’s photographs heavily utilize the technique of double exposure; a technique young artists are still trying to perfect to this day. As an aspiring graphic designer, Louise’s collection was incredibly fascinating as all of her photographs were taken and developed years before the invention of …show more content…
This alone encourages me to go beyond the surface level of brainstorming for my coming art pieces and motivates me to look critically at the art around me to possibly understand what its creator was experiencing at that moment in time. Attending the opening reception has opened my eyes to think deeper when I need inspiration for my next project.
Overall, the reception was rather inspiring if you could get past the lengthy speech accompanied by microphone technical issues. Both exhibits were thought provoking in their own sense; Louise’s double exposure photographs resonated with my love for visually compelling and graphic art. Her analogy of windows and mirrors heavily deals with an artist’s identity and their identity within their own creations and encourages me to look deeper into myself and my art to find the deeper hidden meanings that I might not even know