Seth Trump Blog #3 NYC

The first place I went to was the Chelsea Art Museum. To me it felt more like a gallery than a museum. Right when you walked in there was a bookstore area and a front desk. It consisted of three floors. The ground floor was closed for an upcoming event. The second floor had untitled works and another section for artist Jean Miotte. Then the third floor was dedicated towards printmaker Liao Shiou-Ping.

I concentrated on the second floor. The bottom picture shows the piece i was looking at. It was untitled. A projector projected a video of a person putting items in and out of this box. It was so simple yet clever. It looked so real and they also had a speaker with sound on the inside of the box.

Overall I liked the museum. It was my first time there. But I felt like for paying I should have seen more but they still had some interesting pieces. I would still go again though. The Jean Miotte section from what I understood was a permanent part because that is the foundation it's funded by so another nice part was if you liked their stuff you could come back to see it and if not they constantly have new exhibitions.

The second place I visited was the Paula Cooper Gallery. It was a lot smaller than the Chelsea Art Museum. It was also right across the street on the second floor of a building so it was a little hard to find because I almost felt like I was walking into someone's apartment complex. At the time there was an exhibition going on called Elemental by a group of artists.

The artist were sculptors, photographers, 2d, and types of digital and video art. The piece I focused on is the top picture. You would go into a room with just three screens in the back. On the screens there were three owls and every few seconds to even a minute one out of the three would turn their head and "hoot." I found this very entertaining to watch because you would never know when it was coming. It was kind of a jack in the box affect.

I actually found myself enjoying the Paula Cooper Gallery more than the Chelsea Art Museum. I think the fact that it was free helped. Also the types of art at the gallery drew me in more at the gallery. Everything seemed more organic and more visually appealing. I wanted to get closer to the art and see how they did certain things and understand what the message was behind it.