Double take: Tattoo Show & Senior Exit

For my final blog entry I'm going to lump the Tattoo Show and Senior exit show into one post for the sake of readability and time proficiency.

I'll start with the tattoo show at Haas. First of all I did understand that this show was put together by students, and I was aware that they had taken photos of some of my tattoos, so I was eager to attend. However I felt that the arrangement of photos wasn't done as professionally as it should have been. Instead of looking like a gallery show it appeared to me to be more like a 'visual aid' in a high school presentation.

On the idea of the show being a study on the history of tattooing: They skipped about 400 years of really interesting tattoo history. I saw nothing detailing sailor tattoos nor was there anything about the colorful history of prison tattoos. This upset me because I was most interested in seeing how they would portray these two topics.

Their speaker was a jerk and I felt like I was getting yelled at for 45 minutes. All in all I was somewhat upset about the quality of the show.

On to the Senior exit show.

When I walked into the Haas Gallery to view the exit show, the first thing I noted was the lack of outside of class work. It seemed like everyone only showed work from class assignments, which is fine except assignments don't change from year to year so you end up with similar pieces throughout time.

Another thing I noticed was that within the artists' individual bodies of work, there lacked a certain amount of stylistic consistency. In my opinion, to have a successful art show you should be showing a consistent body of work that portrays your message, instead what I saw for the most part was a mish-mash of school work and bad paintings.

I felt that the only person with a clearly consistent body of work was Maryam Cristillo. I'm glad she talked because it helped me better understand what her work meant. I think other than her work the rest seemed kind of forced.