Trading Spaces

Trading Spaces was, with a few exceptions, mediocre. The photos were not hung in an artistic manner, but rather in a striaght line across the wall. They also clashed into each other when one artist was tansitioning into the next. The only notification that you were looking at a different section of work was a piece ofprinter paper giving information about the next artist. I felt the exhibition as a whole was sloppy, and average. With the exception of the train tracks I did not get the feeling of traveling at all. I felt the pictures were haphazardly put together almost as an afterthought, rather then pieces that made up an entire show.

The only part of the show I did enjoy, were two photos that I felt were exceptional. The photo of the man standing against the stone wall, and the black and white picture of someone standing on a chair under a tree, were beautiful. I loved the simple compostition of these two photos. They don't look forced or posed in any way, but natural. These two pictures really captured my attention and held it. I felt these photos, while not cohesive for this show, are definitely worthy of being featured by themselves in a different exhibt.

Overall I felt a lot more effort and thought could have been put into this show. It could have been presented more clearly, and organized so the artists and pictures did not run into each other. Some pictures by themselves would have been alright for an exhibit but mashing them altogether was a mistake. I think if arranged differently the exhibit could have been nice, but overall it just comes across as sloppy.