Exhibition "Postcard from the Grey Area"

Perfecto P. Manuta Jr.

Art 381

“Art Exhibition”

There was an art exhibition in the Church of Fine Arts building. One of the artists that were featured was Kevin F. Kremler. He has an interactive piece in which you become part of the art itself. The name of this piece is “Postcards from the Grey Area”. It was shown in the Sheppard Fine Art Gallery at the University of Nevada, Reno.

You sit on this stool and you are given some instructions to follow. The instructions tell you to position your body in a certain way to make it look like you are painting on a canvas. Then you have to press a red bottom and hold it fro about 10 seconds. When you follow these instructions a picture will be printed out as a postcard. The postcard is yours to keep. When I saw the picture it was pretty cool that I was involved in the process.

There was also another piece that involve different colored sand, shovels, and a rotating device in the middle that dispensed the sand. You had to put the sand in these containers that revolved. Then you had to spin it to make patterns on the floor. Depending on how you moved and rotated the device each time looked different.

I truly like interactive art because you never know what the out come will be. Especially, because each individual is different and will make different out comes. The sand and the patterns you could make made it an interesting and fun piece. Playing with sand was always fun for me as a kid. This just reminded me of memories on the beach. Playing in the sand, making thing with sand and making patterns in the sand.