Curatorial Project

We were assigned to curate our own art show, from beginning to end doing everything ourselves. Due to the amount of people involved in this project, we had a lot of ideas going around at any given time. Most of the really good ideas got thrown out whether due to lack of interest, lack of time, or lack of submissions. Dealing with the entire creation and planning of the show was kind of a shitshow, but I guess that's kind of what the instructor wanted. In the end, we turned out a pretty okay art show. Some of the pieces seemed a little phoned in, mine included, for my taste. The initial theme was color, and we were to submit pieces that were composed of a single color. Some people didn't do that but we accepted them anyway so the color theme was kind of thrown out in place for this "plus one" sort of theme in which we had to bring in a friend's work as well as our own. I chose my "plus one" because he usually does some interesting, weird paintings but he chose instead to submit a fairly run-of-the-mill beach photograph and an artist statement that wasn't an artist statement at all (which he still presses is an artist statement). I wanted to try to take an image that was originally in color and draw it in black and white, so I chose an image that I felt would still somewhat convey a sense of color even though it was in black and white. I don't know how well this worked out, and I'm kind of disappointed in it. Oh well, no care.