Visiting Chelsea was a lot more different than going to museums like the MET or the MoMA, and I definitely prefer this experience. Walking into a gallery somehow felt a lot more informal. I could walk into any gallery, look around, and just walk out, because if there was something I did not like there were at least a dozen other exhibitions taking place on that same street. Before meeting up with the rest of the group, I went over to the Jonathan Levine gallery to see Tara McPherson’s exhibit Bunny in the Moon, which I would definitely recommend to the rest of the class had it not just closed this past Saturday. Her style is very clean, and from up close her figures look illuminated and 3-dimensional. Here are a few of my favorite paintings of hers:
Of the galleries that we all went to as a group, the Mike Weiss Gallery featuring Kim Dorland’s trippy works was my favorite. It spoke to my adolescence, appealing to the darker elements of my childhood- the Boogeyman, the dark forest, and the angst. His smaller paintings evoked fear and intimidation by greater factors, and as the works became larger the roles reversed. He channeled all of his anger the $10,000 rendering of a secluded forest, and brought his inner demons to life in the creepy crows circling around his filthied canvas.
This will definitely not be my last visit to the galleries. I’m already looking for new artists to check out!
