On Thursday, I headed down to New York City with a couple art classes. (2 teachers and about 15 students) Here is my account of the day.

Elizabeth Murray Subway Mural

We arrived in Grand Central and took the subway to the 59th street subway station where we checked out Elizabeth Murray’s Mural.

My friend named Brian and I came up with this analysis of two shoes on either side of a door and the show laces being tangled above the door way….

The shoes laces represent how we can all come together through the chaos of being tangled up. The door way sends us out into the world with the ideas and values that we have learned at the mural. Once we pass through the doorway we are on our own. The shoes represent us stepping through the doorway.

Comic Abstraction

I saw this exhibit for the second time and really enjoyed it. My two favorite pieces are Untitled by Arturo Herrera and Lisa de Cohen with Adaptive by Franz West.

Dan Perjovschi

I met Dan at the museum where he was drawing on a huge wall white wall with fat magic markers. His drawings comment on political issues. I waited my turn as some important people from the museum talked to him. When I talked to him he explained the project and told me he would be there for two weeks working on it. He is originally from Rome and this is his first exhibit at a museum in the United States. I invited him to be part of the Grab Bag Book and he gave me his email. I can’t wait to see the wall when he is done.

His Website

“Perjovschi has made his drawings spontaneously in museum spaces, allowing global and local affairs to inform the final result. For his first solo museum exhibition in the United States, the artist will draw witty and incisive political images, in response to current events, on one wall…” -From the MoMA Website

MIscellaneous

-Did some drawings on the train.
-Went to Queens
-Checked out some portraits
-Tried some Indian food, an later ate pizza.