Artomatic

So as a whole I enjoyed Artomatic, although I will admit I only visited three floors: 1, 2, and 11. I enjoyed the concept of getting all these artist together in one building and devoting the entire building to it. I wonder about the entry requirements for the show, as the styles and level of quality (for lack of a better word, don't judge me) varied pretty drastically. Some of the site specific installations were awesome! I loved most of the graffitti that was on the first floor, and there was a sculptural thing coming out of the wall that vaguely looked like monochrome graffitti (I think it was on the second floor, or maybe the 11th, I forgot to write down which floor it was, and honestly the floors started to blur together). I took a lot of pictures of examples of the art and artists that I liked as I wandered around. I will attempt to put links to them on this blog over the next few days (I've never done that before so this might prove to be tricky). The way that some of the art was displayed was also very creative in a lot of cases. There was one artists who made little purses out of books, and to display their work, they hung them up on little nails on walls that they had completely covered with pages from classic books including Alice in Wonderland. Another artist, Maria Cristina Belaval, showcased her work of abstract neon colored lines and dots on black canvas on a wall that was covered with neon colored post-it notes! An artist named Gary Norton showcased his photographs of nature against a terracotta colored wall and the frames made of metal from Haiti. Some did innovative things with everyday concepts or objects. One artist, Atti Vakil,  worked with shells, arranging them into lines and waves, and them spray painting them with metallic paint. It was eye catching form afar and drew me in to inspect it more closely. Kirsty Little, a sculptor, made a sculpture of the human spine, displayed it on a black board and dramatically lit the piece from above. She also had a small round dias of her pottery displayed with dramatic lighting, but it was kind of crammed into the back of the room, and you couldn't walk around it, which was disappointing to me.   I am hoping that I will get to go back there, although I am not sure when I will get to go.