EVENT 3 : The Getty Center

The Getty Center had a large range of exhibitions with various forms and mediums for art, including paintings, sculptures and photographs. The exhibition that most emulated the ideas we are focusing in this course was called, Light, Paper, Process: Reinventing Photography.  The works of seven different artists were on display, all of which explored different ways in which we could challenge the norms of photography. The artists played with the camera technologies and the chemical processing of photographic paper.  Lisa Oppenheim's featured work, Heliograms, displayed various images of the moon at different stages in the lunar cycle. The photos showed the immense beauty from our surrounding solar system as well as the vast possibilities of photographic technologies. All of the artists displayed the imaginative and inventive spirits of which this course is designed to explore. 

EVENT 2: The Fowler Museum  Making Strange: Gagawaka + Postmortem by Vivan Sundaram, is currently on display at the Fowler Museum on UCLA's campus. The exhibit is known for combining sculptural garments made from recycled materials and a collection of sculptures created by anatomical models and mannequins. In other words, the exhibition takes scientific models from the human body and transforms them into haunting works. This course discussed different ways in which the human bodies can be used as a forum for artistic expression. The use of modeled human anatomic parts allows fro a greater rage of that expression in that the parts are more pliable and easily attainable. The experience at The Fowler Museum was a remarkable one and I hope that I may attend the museum again soon.