Presentation of Art

1a. Marilyn Minter

 b. 7-9 works

 c. Contemporary Arts Center (CAC), within a large open space, big concrete sweeping walls, industrial feeling to the building

 d. The hyperrealistic documentations of the human form created moods of sensuality, sexuality and confusion.  I think that Minter was trying to combine the human form and unnatural substances to create images that were eye-pleasing yet chaotic.  I found the content behind the work to be highly dramatic and I got a sense of overproduction almost.



2a. Some of the work was hanging from the walls via basic black metal office clips, other works were mounted from the back.  All of the work was unframed.  The sizes ranged from large to larger, all rather big prints, the smallest starting at somewhere close to 20x30 inches.  Part of the exhibition was a video by Minter projected onto a large wall space as well.

b. The exhibition space involved tall open ceiling spaces, and wide open walkways.  One part of the exhibition led off the open area into a hallway with lower ceilings and wooden flooring, versus the buffed concrete flooring.  The space has a highly modern professional feel to it, yet more a mood of polished industrial than perhaps luxurious and expensive.

 c. The space was very well lit, lighting coming from the ceiling down onto the work.  The lighting worked very well to showcase the work.  The hallways or paths around the work was lit lowly, the attention fully being drawn upon the photography and select paintings.

 d. A few of the pieces were hung directly next to each other as to pair them off.  The work in the hallway with the lower ceiling were all spaced in equal farther distances from each other, they each appeared as separate entities.  Even though there was intentional pairing and separation from hallway to hallway and wall-face to wall-face, the entire body worked cohesively together.  The incorporation of bright colors and strange textures helped set the mood among the show.

 e. When I viewed the work the CAC was nearly empty so viewing the work was enjoyable and it was easy to take my own time to look at each and not be bothered by noise of others.



3. The exhibit looked very professional, concise and cohesive.  But I also felt a mood of informality or casualness, most likely due to the casual metal clips and lack of framing.  I was very intrigued by the casualness of the presentation of the work.  The images seemed to be highly produced and stylized.  I think the casualness worked for this exhibit because the images were so specific in the way of documenting the abstracted human forms that any more details and something would have been taken away.