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Mini Research Paper

Lisa Kereszi was born in Pennsylvania in 1973 and she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts at Bard College and received a MFA from Yale University in 2000. She has been photographing but about 20 years, she explores “the world of recreation and escapism”. Lisa has photographed public spaces like parks, movie theaters, arcades, bars and spaces like that. The two pieces of work that I’ve chosen were “Walls, Surfaces, Illusions” (May 16- July 3, 2019) and “The Party’s Over” (May 24- July 6, 2012). In one of her projects named “Walls, Surfaces, Illusions” she would explore cheap entertainment and photograph them. Her photographs accoring to http://origin.www.yanceyrichardson.com/exhibitions/lisa-kereszi4?view=slider#5 emphasizes the details that lift the veil between fantasy and reality. She doesn’t plan of taking these pictures she gets attracted to a unique theme that her surroundings gives off.

Another exhibition is “The Party’s Over” and as her other pieces of work its theme of going to abandoned theme parks and public places. This exhibition is like a follow up to another one of her works names “Fun and Games”. The pictures in this exhibition seem to have been of places that were once filled with people and then later on abandoned for a while as some of these places can be seen with either torn up, covered in filth, or things that have been put away. http://lisakereszi.com/projects/the-partys-over. In my opinion these pictures all make me come up with other images in my head to when these places actually had people and they would be having fun. Like in one of the pictures there is a disco ball placed ina box instead of being placed overhead. But to me looking at the picture it makes me think of how it might’ve been used back before it was placed in the box like people dancing and having fun.

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Artist Statement/ Final Portfolio

In this final portfolio while looking at all these pictures I’ve noticed that I am more of an outside person and like going on adventures with my friends. And when im around my friends I feel like I enjoy myself even more than when im by myself. Most of these pictures have been of us going out to the city of Manhattan or just out in the nature. Also on top of that I’ve included pictures of the things I hold close to my life like playing soccer, hanging out, and just taking photos of my surrondings although sometimes I just take it in with my own eyes instead of taking a picture.

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Mitch Epstein

Mitch Epstein was born in 1952 in Holyoke, Massachusettes, he has won mulitple awards due to his work. He won the Guggenheim Fellowship (2003)   Prix Pictet for American Power (2011) ,and the Berlin Prize in Arts and Letters from the American Academy in Berlin (2008). His recent work Property Rights is about different communities having to compete and fight for their rights to American land and looking at the pictures of the project makes me feel a certain way cause of the struggles of these people as they have to live in reservations and some being refuges.

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Exhibition Review

The one artist that i have chosen was Terry Evans in Yancey Richardson Gallery. Terry was born in Kansas City in 1944, she received her BFA in 2016 and was made an Honrary Doctor of Arts. She is known for photographing people, artifacts and landscapes in the midwest of America. Her photographs were of the changes in the landscapes of Kansas. Evans has many exhibits around the US including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington D.C, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City and some others. Books have been made based around her work. “The Inhabited Prairie” shows how the landscape is being changed by humans because of industrialization and farming and reforming the land. She wanted people to be alert to the way humans underappreciate the landscape

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Place Assignment

1. 9/13 City Hall Park

2. 9/27 Prospect Park

3. 10/10 Pier 5

4. 10/13 Washington Square Park

5. 11/21 34th Street Station

6. 11/30 Cantina’s rooftop

7. 12/8 Vessel 34th Street Hudson Yard

8. 12/8 The Shops and Restaurants at Hudson Yard

-Alex Villamar PHO 101

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I can connect these two pictures in the same way Brad Ogbonna did describing his self-portrait “we also reserve space for the peaceful and idyllic, the space to stretch our arms and our souls. So I drove to Long Island for the space it allowed me, away from my familiar surroundings, social media, and the repeated images of black sorrow.” In mine I’m in a place of my own with no distractions and all peacefulness.