First Friday 3/6

Although I was not able to attend the First Friday festivities, I visited a couple of galleries the previous day. The quirk gallery had a very interesting display of fashion cut out arms and legs that were arranged into various pieces of art. I preferred the larger paintings over the more sculptural pieces, although the model of all the legs in a sort of wiggly circle was very well constructed for using paper as a medium. At first when I viewed it I thought about how much more tedious it would have been to have cut out those legs in metal instead of paper. It could have been because there were fashion sketches involved, but the entire show felt like a sketch within itself. I feel like the concept could have produced something much more substantial. Individually I think each piece of artwork would be graphically interesting to stand on it’s own, but I really enjoyed the show in it’s collaborative entirety.