Chelsea Gallery visits part 1

it was a much batter day to be going to the city on September 25th. Started the day bright and early and hit 22nd street first to the PaceWildstein Gallery. Maya Lin was the artist here. She did 3 huge peices that went real well with the title " Three ways of Looking at the Earth. There were 2 structures of wood and the other of metal wire. The one with Metal wire was titled "water Line". The structure made me feel like i was underneath the earth or perhaps floating above the earth upside down. its funny that i thought of it that way because there were no real ladmarks or visuals to indicate that i was the earth. it was simply a bunch of cured and bend wire, but i think because of its sheer size i felt small like i would feel if i was upsidedown or underneath the surface of the earth looking up. I feel this piece was the most succesful because of the feelings i had. the other 2 peices out of wood were nice but they were simply structures not really invading my space or giving me any feeling that it was something more than just carved wood.

...end of part 1...

New Museum

i don't think anyone could have picked a more worse day to go into the city, it was rainy and just, well, wet. Converse shoes were not a good choice. it was ultimately a horrible trip, and i would truly think that if i didn't appreciate every experience in life and learn from my mistakes. However i felt the exhibits i saw at the new museum were not worth the trip, at least not this trip. I felt the Emory Douglas was a bit redundant with is black panthor work. i feel that it would have made more of an impact if the room was smaller, not so big with the art work stretched out. The Photo Graphs from David Goldblatt were ... nice, i liked how he intertwined the different presentations of the photos with framed and now framed, and color and not color. the only one that did intreig me, and i feel somewhat ashamed to admit this, was Dorothy Lannone's work. She did chose a topic of sex and objectified women that i think is a bit over done. But her style was very unique and there were a varity of mediums used.