Kim Banisters exhibit was the first gallery visit I was actually, honestly fully interested in. Banister's pieces were just visually appealing to me because of the major drawing aspects involved in every piece - I thought that the figure drawing was perfected, not in an accuracy sense, but in the sense of an emotion felt by the viewer. I have always loved drawing over any other media/technique in the art world - Therefore, I was naturally drawn to Banister's work. Also, I was initially and totally perplexed at the dripping-like color effect in each piece - Before the gallery visit, I had seen a poster for the exhibit, showing the lone woman resting her head on her knee, with a red, dripping pigment, concentrated in areas which made me think of a kind of darker theme - but as I got to view and take in the other pieces, such as the two people who are wrapped up together in some way, made me think that there was a lighter mood to all of the pieces and kind of just made me feel that she was trying to capture and play with the beauty and rawness of figure drawing.
My favorite piece, or pieces, were of the (seemingly) man and woman intertwined - These pieces just kind reminded me of love, no matter how cheesy it seems - Just the way that
the figures were drawn together so smoothly and the warmness of the colors used in the drippings gave me a warm feeling - It was just, one of those drawings, because of its smoothness and coloring, and arrangement, with line and the composition, which evoke an emotion, which was definitely of the warmer/happier emotions upon viewing the piece, such as the emotion felt when receiving a hug, or becoming happily content.
Sitting through Banister's lecture was intriguing - in a way that I found that the works that were in the gallery were so experimentally involved - In my own head, before the lecture, I was thinking that there was going to be a huge amount of depth to the nudeness of the figures, the color red used in the piece that was on the postcard, etc. Kim Banister clearly stated otherwise - In these pieces, she was experimenting with just the beauty of the "rawness" of drawing the nude figure and what you can make of it - Also, she was experimenting with linseed oil and types of transferring for the dripping color which appeared in each piece - This was amazing to me - Banister had just clearly explained, and amazingly demonstrated through her exhibit, that experimentation is in fact, so crucial in the art world. Banister explained that she had started working with figures and figures in the nude some years ago and experimenting to just see what she could do - Experimenting and just letting yourself go at your art in a free-flowing way is always something I have wanted to do and am trying to work towards - Just seeing beauty in Banister's pieces in the gallery and how much it coordinated with her lecture about the importance of experimentation and practice inspired me so much more to work at being open and experimental with my art, and realizing that so much practice and an open, free mind is very important in making art and making something of yourself, was amazing.
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