The Renwick Gallery’s exhibition titled “Wonder” brings nine contemporary artists to create installations in each room of the building. The room I entered had to work of the artist, Tara Donovan. Her installation was large mountains of index cards that towered up to the ceiling of the large room they were in. As I walked in, I could not tell what the mountains were made of, but as I got closer I could see the individual components of the piece. The amount of index cards used for these mountains was astonishing and made me pay attention to my surroundings a bit better to see the details in everything. The next artist was Gabriel Dawe, who used many threads, totaling in sixteen different colors and approximately 60 miles, to stretch from
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Next, I walked upstairs into a large room with a gigantic multicolored net hanging from the ceiling created by Janet Echelman. Just the colors of red, orange, yellow, and pink, along with its size amazed me, but the meaning behind it was also interesting. Echelman created this work to correspond to the map of energy released across the Pacific Ocean from the Tohuku earthquake and tsunami. It was so powerful that it shifted the earth’s axis and shortened the day by 1.8 millionths of a second. This is why she named the piece “1.8”. The meaning of the work and the actual work itself had me floored. The next room had the work of Jennifer Angus, who covered the entire room’s interior with different species of bugs. From afar, the bugs looked like wallpaper, but as I got closer, I could see the real individual bugs. The different colors of the bugs and the patterns they created on the wall, which was covered in a dye made from bugs, amazed me. It really gave an eerie and mysterious feel to the overall room. Next, Chakaia Booker created a large installation of panels of sliced up tires, connected into one large flowing piece. I thought this was interesting because I could walk through the entire piece, along the waves of the panels of sliced tire and get a good look of the
Next, I walked upstairs into a large room with a gigantic multicolored net hanging from the ceiling created by Janet Echelman. Just the colors of red, orange, yellow, and pink, along with its size amazed me, but the meaning behind it was also interesting. Echelman created this work to correspond to the map of energy released across the Pacific Ocean from the Tohuku earthquake and tsunami. It was so powerful that it shifted the earth’s axis and shortened the day by 1.8 millionths of a second. This is why she named the piece “1.8”. The meaning of the work and the actual work itself had me floored. The next room had the work of Jennifer Angus, who covered the entire room’s interior with different species of bugs. From afar, the bugs looked like wallpaper, but as I got closer, I could see the real individual bugs. The different colors of the bugs and the patterns they created on the wall, which was covered in a dye made from bugs, amazed me. It really gave an eerie and mysterious feel to the overall room. Next, Chakaia Booker created a large installation of panels of sliced up tires, connected into one large flowing piece. I thought this was interesting because I could walk through the entire piece, along the waves of the panels of sliced tire and get a good look of the