Kelly Mullin - Gallery Inspiration (Lester Rapaport)

After traveling to all the galleries I found it all to be very interesting but for me nothing at all great. The work flowed really well and was quite interesting but nothing really sparked my interest. Most of the work was too basic or to common for what I like. There were a few pieces I really enjoyed but in total most of it didn't keep my attention. There were even a few galleries when I thought “just why?”. I love seeing new artist and new ideas so it was definitely worth visiting and seeing to gain experience but this trip nothing did it for me. Next time I’m hoping more will pop out at me. It seemed that there were a lot of pieces priced so high for what they looked like. Some completely deserved the pricing but many were worth thousands of dollars and seemed to only be copying what they see right in front of them. I just want to see more use of thought and idea instead of getting something slammed in my face.

The only artist that seemed to influence my work wasn't even really a photographer, he was a painter. Lester Rapaport had a few photographs but his paintings intrigued me more. They were pretty simple but it’s the simple I enjoy. The paintings considered of mainly just paint dripping on canvas with multi-colored paints. Some canvases had a few circles added in but many contained just paint drippings. They were pretty big sized canvases which help take you into the paintings. The colors all flowed together too, which also helped draw your eye in and make the room brighter/happier.

  

Within my work I tried the idea of dripping but not in the exact same way. I created side profile portraits with the medium cyanotype and used the dripping to add another affect to the pieces. I used the drippings to erase the faces of the characters in the cyanotypes to add a sense of mystery. I believe the idea worked and like what came out of it so I intend to continue with the same idea but in different ways. Maybe change up how the drippings play within the images. Experimenting is always fun to do so most likely something interesting will come out of furthering the idea.