The Red Carpet Revisited

This work is especially ironic (eye-ronic -- ha!) during Awards Season. Instead of us looking at who's walking down the Red Carpet, the Red Carpet directly confronts us -- the Viewer. Why is it buttressed up against the wall? Did the artist mean to imply a sense of isolation or a feeling of being trapped ("up against the wall")?

Bergamot Station Gallery Visit

Here is a photograph of our field trip to the galleries at Bergamot Station on February 5, 2009. I am intrigued by the manner in which this gallery seems to engage the class.

• Was it the artwork? Exuberant and surprisingly intricate. Soft as a whisper and loud as a shout...mechanical and gestural at the same time.
• Was it the setting--the open space, the expanse of whiteness, sandwiched between dark ceilings and floor? It felt cavernous yet cozy.
• Was it the arrangement of artworks? The black images on the 2 opposite walls seeemd to have the authority of a punctuation mark at the end of a sentence and anchored the whiteness.

I welcome your comments...