Lindsay McCormick’s MFA Exhibition

            Before going to this exhibition, I remembered seeing part of this series during the symposium last fall. I remember her discussing on the lapse in environment can influence flow and that these workers were claiming ownership to their new space. Seeing the whole series together was really interesting to me because what gives way to a “relaxing environment” of a break room’s atmosphere was very chaotic in most of the images that she captured. I remember just seeing one break room out of the whole series that was the tidiest of all and I think it was from an accounting firm. I liked how she had displayed her show with the titles of the pieces on a separate area and images were arranged with a number. I enjoyed this because I didn’t have any preconceived notion of on the type of break room it was and I wasn’t trying to associate each image with anything else.  I really liked comparing the break rooms with one another and I liked the display of the mini fridges, although I did not open them up.

             

Undergraduate Exhibition

        I really enjoyed the Undergraduate Exhibit because I thought it was really amazing to see all the hard work that the art and design students have been doing this past year and were able to show case it in this exhibit. There was a very large variety of works in all different types of mediums. I went to the exhibit a couple of times and walked around and each time I was there, I was blown away by all of the work each student had done. 

       There were several pieces that I admire such as the coffee table, I was so impressed with the craftsmanship and the concept of the table alone I thought it was a really remarkable piece. I also admired the different metal works that were on display as well, some of the pieces were very intricate and it had to take a lot of time to perfect these pieces. I really loved the camera tea diffuser, I thought it was really cool and had very nice details.
       I was able to be a part of the show this year with having three of my works selected. I felt like it was a great experience from start to finish and I really enjoyed the reception and seeing who was all involved to make the show possible.

Favorite Presentation

            I really enjoyed all of the presentations because we were able to learn more in depth about each artist. My favorite was Dohgyoung Ahn’s presentation on Sandy Skoglund. Seeing her work already in lecture and in previous classes I was already drawn in wanting to learn a little more about Skoglund.

         I thought Dohgyoung presented very well, she kept me intrigued and I thought she was very thorough with the information that she gave. She seemed very confident and not nervous at all.

         I was even more interested with Sandy Skoglund because of the images that Dohyoung first presented, they were of portraits that were captured in every day house items. I have never seen this body of work before and I thought it was really amazing because of the way it was done.

         I think Skoglund’s work is really remarkable with the different color pallets she choses to design her vision. I learned from these images, she believes that food ties and serves as the global language. My favorite image from this body of work would have to be Gathering Paradise because of the way this image was setup. I love how the outside of the house is all pink with the purple squirrels and then looking inside the house is the opposite of the outside.

         I am also amazed with Skoglund’s recent work, Fresh Hybrid and how this installation is built with pipe cleaners. I think of the man-hours this must have taken to plan and construct this installation and all of her works is pretty amazing.