The Henry Art Gallery

The concepts that were given to me were proportion, proximity, and continuation. At the Henry, I looked at a painting called Fade, done by Ken Kelly in 1992. The painting has about 20 circles all with the same diameter. They are all pink but each shaded differently. The ground is brown with the same tone as the pink in the circles. I think that proximity and continuation can be found in this painting. Proximity can be seen in the way he placed each circle, some of the circles are closer than others, I think that he used this in making his painting more visually appealing. Ken then used continuation in some the the circles individually. In some of them they fade into the background but our mind complete the circle and knows what each circle does without them actually being completed.

Looking at the installation, Panoptos as a whole, I very much enjoyed going. It was interesting to me to first look at the room with all of the paintings hung so closely together, and then going to find the big TV where you could see through the camera. Being in the big room with all of the paintings it was almost hard to focus in on only one painting. I also appreciated the diversity with all of the chosen works to hang up. At first I had no idea where to find the joystick and the screen, I thought that it was interesting the placement of this. I expected this to be closer to the paintings and in a room all by its self. But this was actually in a room with other paintings that had nothing to do with the installation. I was able to play with the camera for a bit, and I also didn't expect it to be so zoomed into the paintings. It was almost like you didn't know what painting you were even looking at. Because it was in such a different part of the gallery, you weren't able to see where the camera was pointed.

I would have liked to see the whole painting through the camera, instead of only seeing cropped portions of the art works. But I think having the TV in a completely different part of the gallery worked well, because it was fascinating to not know exactly know what you're looking at but as you move around the joystick you can kind of put the zoomed in images together.