We were given the chance to visit the Helen Belkin Art Gallery, which is a gallery located on the UBC campus. It was an interesting and inspiring visit. The exhibit was called “Exponential Future” and focused on eight young B.C. artists. The artists featured were Tim Lee, Alex Morrison, Isabelle Pauwels, Kevin Schmidt, Mark Soo, Corin Sworn, Althea Thauberger and Elizabeth Zvonar. The curators chose artists working in different media whose work involved a wide range of issues to give an overview of the new artistic thinking of our time and place. Having never been to a contemporary art gallery before, I was somewhat shell shocked going in. I believed the gallery experience would be like those traditionally seen in movies and television, where the gallery visitor stands at a painting and tries to decipher what the artist is trying to say. However, this gallery experience was not like that. Many of the exhibits were interactive with moving parts, video or sound. Others required a lot of thought and contemplation to think about what the artist was trying to say. Some pieces, to me, didn’t even seem like art and it was difficult to imagine their place in the gallery. As I went through the exhibits, my mind kept coming back to the same question: What is Art? So many of the pieces shown did not seem like the traditional art I was used to. They were open to interpretation and required the viewer to open their mind to new possibilities. During my time at the gallery, I was forced to question my own beliefs about what is art and what isn’t. Even now, I still question what is art and what isn’t. I find myself looking at everyday objects in a new light, as though they may be a piece of art! The trip to the art gallery further emphasized the fact that art is open to interpretation and can have different meanings to different people. In the classroom, all children who try are creating pieces of art, there are no specific requirements necessary!Visual Reflection from Gallery
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