Exhibition Visit

I visited the gallery in the Art building on campus. This piece of artwork is by Asha Ganpat. It is called Grimoire, a handmade book with twelve illustrations and interactive access. There is a candle holder with "candles" made out of paper and ink.

'Muslim in America" by Aileen Bassis a unique artist book with transferred prints. It represents the struggles Muslim people in America have to go through on a daily basis. I believe in this piece the artist main focus was the identity of each individual that is Muslim. Because the images are black and white it is like you can create your own story within it. For the viewers by first looking at the piece you can probably think of a story that has nothing to do with being Muslim, but once you look at the title and the description you can then see its purpose.

"Is This My America" also by Aileen Bassis is a unique artist book with photos transfer prints and lithographs. At first look, you can tell that the inspiration behind it was the same as "Muslim in America" I think this art piece was self-explanatory. When I first saw it I said it is about the way society treats the planet. It also helped because the title is written in the piece. When you read the title you can also put the pieces together and say it is asking a simple question like, is this the country we live in? The piece makes you think about what can cause us to ask such a question and give it answers like pollution.

"No Way Out" by Ibou Ndoye is an ink drawing and collage on heavy kraft paper. When I first saw this piece I did not think it was a collage. When I think of drawn collages this was not what I pictured. You can come up with so many different perspectives for this piece but what I saw by reading the title was someone who is possibly stuck at a certain obstacle in life and just can not seem to find their way out. Even though I only visited the gallery at school it was still interesting pieces to look and to make up a story for it. There were a few similarities in some of them like I mentioned before but they all had their own unique touch to them.