Artist Comments

I loved Gregory Crewdon's artowrk. He took realistic almost ordinary scenes of everyday life, and using light and intuition, created a feeling of a private moment being captured. His images were intame and have a haunting and somewhat sad quality about them. Because of these feelings being brought up in me I became emotional invested. Who is the naked women in many of the images? What story do these narrative artworks convey? These images are beautiful in their own unique way. I am drawn in and want to see and know more.

Tuen Hocks uses lighting to set a mood of wonder. The scenes he creates are almost realistic yet he brings an element of wonder to his peices. There is an aspect that is unexpected such as Untitled (playing with train). It is almost magical to see the older man on a large set of train tracks as it loops around and becomes a small train, almost like a toy.

I did not have a strong connection wiht Jeff Wall's artwork. It had a sense of staged tradgedy. Some works were a bit absurd wile others were mundane. He takes ordinary everyday scenes but does not make me care or look twice such as in A View From An Apartment. He has a few intriguing compostions and puzzling pieces such as The Storyteller and the Volunteer and he has a definete personal style through his words vary and he is creative and works many different ways. However, overall I am not passionate about his artwork.

As I went through Cindy Sherman's work I was instantly struck by the subtle sensuality if not sexuality of her photographs, yet they have much more of a presense than just a women looking alluring. Her photographs are cheeky, unique, real, dynamic, and capture a women's essense and emotion all at the same time wile still being powerful and strong. What a feat. Even in some photographs or film stills when a women is crying, the real emotion is there! There is vulnerability and composure coexisting. She works all these emotions into her black an white photograps beautifully and keeps the fact that her work is "about the idea"..."not high art" so that people, such as me, are able to realte. Her simple yet well thought out compositions complete the beauty of her artwork.