Gallery Visit (Oct 23rd)

I certainly did my research for this visit. The one show that would have been absoutly perfect for this visit was Tim Burton's Exhibition at the MoMa, unfortunately that show doesn't start until November 2nd. So what i did do was take a trip to the Prallsville Mills Sawmill Gallery in the small town of Stockton, NJ to support my local artists. The Name of this show was "The Real, The Abstract, The Art of Hunterdon". This show included many artist from my hometown and from other parts of Hunterdon County. One of the artist, Shelia Watson Coutin, I knew from an art class i took at Raritan Valley Community college and whom i still talk to every now and again. She usually does pottery. However in this show her work was sculptures that were constructed out of clay and glaze. She had 3 peices in the show that all revolved around a theme. The work, to me, was symbolizing the relationship between nature and the human form. the sculptures included aspects of the human anatomy and 2 of the 3 were representations of actual female figures. I liked how Sheila made these figures voluptuous and rotund, not making them the skinny ideal female figure of society today. And with accents of nature around the forms it gave me a , should i say, warm toasty feeling inside that these forms are natural, and are the true ideal form of the female body. I take this theme to a personal level because as a female in this society there are many pressures to look good and skinny, it seems in this society being skinny is considered attractive and i really hate that aspect of American culture. I also enjoy the human form, i use anatomy in a lot of my work. i also have a high respect and love for nature, however, i don't always incorporate nature in my work.