evolving by Kim Banister
jan 11- feb 5, 2010
Haas gallery
Today I visited the Kim Banister exhibit at the Haas gallery. The pieces felt kinda pressed by the small gallery, however the scale of some of the pieces ( yeah Venus that's you!) helped to add to the crowded effect. Overall the exhibit was stylistically cohesive and even with a muted palette she is able to use colour to help convey the emotions in her work. The aspect that I liked the most were the drips, to me they represented the pieces melting away, like the emotions melting away to some day be another emotion, or how the images will soon drip out of my memory after I leave the gallery.
I chose the pieces shown to the right because it seemed to be the darkest, not only in palate but also theme. The pieces is simply put a gesture sketch of a woman and the color red.
The figures position helps to create a sense of movement as your eyes swirl around it, the downward gaze leads into the arms and red drips going down the chest to the legs that appear tucked behind the figure leading you to explore the tonal texture of the background.
I chose this piece because the dark tone of it and the figures position intrigued me. Is she sad? mournful? Why are her hands red? Then it hit me this woman has blood on her hands and she has been running for a long time, she is exhausted from trying to hide. She collapses she cant go any further, she weeps... No just kidding I don't know what this one is trying to say it looks like just one of those prints that you might find at Michaels... generic. But that's just my opinion.
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