Sculpture Center Reaction

How an art work is shown is as important as how it looks; this I have learned when I stepped in The Sculpture Center. My first impression was this is a very big place and the outside looked like any other building in the area, but when I stepped inside it seemed to shrink. I knew the history of the place and I am reluctant to say it feels the same in the inside but that is the intent of the designer. This also was confirmed by the first thing you see, besides the front desk it is the huge statue of what looks like to me a monster. This was built by Sanford Biggers it is called “ A Joia Do Orixa” I am not sure what it means but I hope it does not mean “big scary monster”, this made the space seem small due to her size and her color ( red). In a space that is not The Sculpture Center it won’t have same effect. The same goes for this odd looking well “welcome mat” had a picture of a little man fixing a pipe it is by Danna Vajda and it is called “sweptunderug”; this made me think two things because of the building it made sense its someone that use to work here, but on the other hand I would think there is a trap door below it and if I step there I am sure to fall in a pit of some sort. Lastly was something that made me glad that I know karate, it was in a room with strange light red and blue and it had a strange smell that I could not put my figure on. Also o my surprise my Iphone just so happen to lose when I stepped into this area. This picture was one of a girl with a number of tattoos and piercings, due to the space I half expected her to live in the Sculpture Center. It is by Rona Yefman and it’s called” Shanghi Kate”. If this was in a palace like MoMa it would only look like a teenage girl who is a bit “strange” , but in the Sculpture Center she fits in and not only that the hallway that this picture is in  the perfect home. Also it is perfect for the point she is trying to represent the “underground” world of tattoos and piercings.

Sanford Biggers “A Joia Do Orixa” 2011

Danna Vajda “Sweptundertherug” 2011

Rona Yefman “Shanghai Kate” 2011