Field Trip #2

On our second field trip, we went to PS1 in Long Island City. Though it was smaller than the MoMA, it certainly packed it's own punch. My favorite painting was one created by Kelly and Jeff Poe in Los Angeles in 2011 titled "Let's Be One on Top". It was a black fist at the top and though it was so simple, it was so empowering at the same time.

I wasn't a fan of "Rock It" by Carmine Boccuzzi and Bernard Lumpkin from 2007 (New York). I tried to make sense of it but it was awfully confusing. Maybe it was the mannequin head on top of a large amount of boxes; I couldn't get a story out of it.

Last, one I didn't understand, was "Served Up" by the Hudgin's family from 2009. After standing there for almost 20 minutes trying to make sense of it, I think it was the food that threw me off a little. My opinion is just one of millions but over all, it was a different experience that I embraced.

Field Trip #1

Our first field trip to the MoMA was an interesting one. Let me start off by saying it wasn't anything like I expected. I thought it was going to be a bunch of boring art but boy, was I wrong. For my individual art piece, I chose a piece by Mark Bradford from 2007 named "Giant". It was a bunch of torn pieces of newspaper put onto canvas. From the sounds of it, it sounds kind of lame but it also had a bunch of colors and almost a theme to it. It almost reminded me of spiderman web's!

For cultural identity, I chose an Andrea Zittel work from 2011 called "Old Red Under-panel". The whole picture was a pattern, which almost reminded me of an Aztec or Indian work of art. After researching, I learned that she was from a Mexican-based part of California which would explain the background of the picture.

Last, I chose a Gerhard Heufler work from 2006 titled "Camcopter S-100 Unmanned Aerial Vehicle". You don't even see it at first until you see it and after that you're caught staring because it's quite amazing. I chose this for historical identity because this was a helicopter designed for aerial use in Vienna specializing in the de-mining in the 1970's. They also used it for border and harbor patrol and surveillance. Over all, all 3 of these works really spoke to me and that's why I feel they're important enough to choose out of the whole museum. Even though they don't have stories that go with them, just looking at them, you can see a story unfold.