I have visited the NAWA exhibit on Saturday, Sep. 28th. It was a small exhibition, hidden on the 4th floor, in a small apartment-like space. I had expected it to be bigger, but found that even in this small space I had to spend a lot of time to look at each work on display. There were mainly paintings and statues on display, some were just beautiful but did not seem to convey anything but beauty from the first glance,

some had a clear message,

some were open to interpretation,

and some I did not understand at all.

I greatly enjoyed the visit, although I do wish I had come with someone else who would be able to offer their perspective. My favorite piece on display was “Make it Count” by Ann Hadley Larusa. It was a technically we ll done sculpture, and the message I perceived it to have was about the importance and difficulty of making your time count. It was different from other works there, and while it is not the kind of art piece I would want to hang in my living room, it was the piece I best remembered. I tried to find information about the author online but could not, which adds to the mystery as to why she created this piece.

When I had visited the gallery, there were very few visitors there besides me, one other person, to be exact. Perhaps it was simply the time I visited it (in the morning), but it did not look like a very popular event. In class we have briefly mentioned that there are far fewer popular female painters than male, and this gallery centered on contemporary art by female artists. I wonder if anyone else had found this (few visitors) to be the case.