Final Friday Crawl

Well, I got a late start last night. I did make the scene at Blank Page, Shift Space and City Arts.
Frankly, I felt the best art I viewed was at Blank Page where Maize HS senior art students had a large exhibit. This art excited me and made me change my facial expression several times. The ceramics blew me away. My favorite piece was one entitled "My Space". It is a ceramic sculpture portraying a two story environment with a ceramics studio on first floor and bedroom on second floor. These rooms are set in a corner arrangement of adjoining walls with the front and top open like doll's house. Monochormatic earthtone coloring with textural elements and shading. This exhibit was much more interesting to me than that at Shift Space for several reasons. First, the space was filled with work, and second there was lots of diversity of materials. There were several nicely rendered drawings and lots of color. Shift Space was virtually empty in comparrison and its white walls and stands where the works were displayed overwhelmed them. Repainting the walls to divide the space and set off the individual pieces might have helped. There was an exhibit of very large photographs with a Kansas theme at City Arts. The architectural ones were slightly interesting because of unusual angle of view. Manipulation of color and some layering would have rendered them ART for me. As it was these were just plain old pix only big. The ones with animals had more to say to me because of the subject matter only. Again, just big pix. I spent about ten minutes looking at them.
And that's all I have to say about that. Margaret