Candyce Musinski - Final Blog Assignment (Marcy Geyer)

Marcy Geyer's art presentation was an extremely moving one. As an activist for the LGBT, her artwork revolves around gay and lesbian rights. As a fellow activist for gay and lesbian rights, I was very touched by Marcy's artwork and her motivation behind it. I found her pieces to be visually pleasing and detailed with much thought behind them. I was inspired by her art.

Marcy presented a slideshow of her work at Bloomsburg University. Some of her first pieces seemed amateur, but as she showed her more developed pieces, I got the sense that she learned something. She started experimenting with ideas and I appreciated her fierceness. In the beginning, her pieces consisted of printing same gender couples being crossed out or other symbols that intertwined with the american flag. Though these pieces had a beautiful meaning to them, they didn't strike me as much as her later pieces did. One piece that I truly enjoyed was of two political figures' faces being reversed on the other side. The colors were bright and vibrant and text of quotes were printed on top of them. I found her pieces with faces and texts to be a little literal, but very powerful. I was intrigued and the details in them made me want to stare at them for a long time. I loved Marcy's boldness in these pieces.

The greatest piece Marcy presented were her pillows. Marcy used silkscreen on pillows with text or pictures. On the pillows were either pictures of well-known abused gay/lesbian people or text that pronounced gay rights. I thought the pillows were visually striking, but then Marcy took her piece a step further by placing these pillows around campus. I thought her idea was great! Marcy took her art and threw it in people's faces. I loved how publicly powerful she was and I thought she could inspire a lot of other people by continuing this idea. Marcy's pieces questioned our rights and society and her pieces definitely proved her opinion.