MOPA

When I went to MOPA there were three different galleries. I had an interest in two of them and wrote a little bit on 3 different works of art.
The first exhibit I went into was the HUMANITAS- Images of India by Fredric Roberts. I loved this gallery! I really do have a fascination with images from India. Their culture is just so bright and mysterious it brings the colors out in the prints so vibrantly. Roberts states how is photographs, "tell a story of beauty and grace, work and family, spirtuality and devotion." Every image tells a spactacular story and I found two that really sparked my interest.
The first print is called,
"Dark Eyes"
The photograph was up close look into the eyes of an Indian woman. I loved how the image was blurry around the edges and a softly focused face in the middle. The expression on her face was amazing as she starred straight into the camera with a little smirk on her face. Her dark brown eyes and dark skin complement each other and compared to the bright color of the jewel on her forehead really make the contrasting colors come to life. To finish it off the cropping makes it really come together to make a fabulous photograph.

The second print is called,
"Woman in a Truck" 2003
This photograph really attracted me because of it's unusual point of view. It's not very often when you see a pretty woman through the side planks of an old truck. I love how you can see her vibrant eyes peaking through with the sharpness of this woman's nose ring. Also with the sharpness you see her age through every wrinkle on her face and hands. I love the cropping in this photograph as well. The horizontal lines of the truck complement the vertical line of her body. The hand in the very top right corner gives you an interesting feeling of holding on tight.

The next gallery that I enjoyed and thought was very different was the FLESH- Portraits by Gary Schneider. This gallery was very interesting because it wasn't just plain ol' photographs hung on a wall. The room was very dark and all the images had a dark background with a piece of the body in a monotone color. He had DNA samples, blood samples and x-rays all blown up at least by 5 times. The images that I choose to write on was the

"Genetic Self Portrait: Hands"
This was a gelatin silver print of a pair of hands enlarged at least by 5 times. This photograph was kind of hard to explain or even hard to tell what exactly it was at all. It's easy to see it's a hand, but its hard to see how it was done. It looks like he had is hand pressed up against a glass with some kind of liquid on it so that you could make out his individual prints. The actual prints are very sharp with the liquid around them being very blurry and out of focus. I love how the left and right hands are on separate canvases and how each hand is right in the middle of that canvas. I think I would actually hand these on my wall at my home or business.