Rediscovering My Love of Art

Last week I went to the art gallery here on campus as I realized that it is housed in the building I spend the majority of my time in and I had never actually been in it in my three years here (rather odd for someone who loves art as much as I do.) I had forgotten up until recently how much I love art and how happy it makes me. The current exhibition was The Cost of Shame: Victims In The Shadows, and was a focus on violence in the lives of women. There were some wonderful pieces included in the display, but unfortunately my phone battery was dying so I didn't get pictures of all of them. These are the pictures I did get of 3 of my favorites.

I loved the natural elements of this one.

There was something so haunting about this one, it was very visually interesting about it, with the layer of black laying peeled back from the color underneath.

This was my favorite in the exhibition and was done by a friend of mine, a very talented artist, Ethan Prus. Unfortunately the colors are nowhere near as vibrant in this picture as they are in the original painting, but I just loved this painting. I thought the look in the subject's eye was marvelous. She seemed to have a mixture of defiance and a haunted quality about her and it really was so wonderful in person.

And that was my most recent forray into art, I am planning on going to some galleries in Denison next week. I didn't know there were any, but the internet can help you find many things you didn't know were there!I'm hoping for a trip to the Dallas Museum of Art soon, and am looking forward to going to the next exhibition at the gallery in the Visual and Performing Arts Center.