W4-Artist Convo

Artist- Casandra Aguilera

Exhibition- Metal and Jewelry

Media-

Gallery- LBSU School of Art, Gatov Gallery West

Casandra is an undergrad student apart of the studio art program. She likes to create stuff and it doesn’t matter what media it is. Casandra said ” A lot of my stuff is conceptual, but I fell like most of the subjects of my work surrounds mental illness, when you look at it you’re just like, “oh it’s this” or “oh it’s that” but usually, I have a deeper meaning to it in which you wouldn’t be able to know what it is by just looking at it. If I were to explain it to you, it would make a lot more sense.”

The art I saw looked like it was meant to look messy on purpose. It is suppose to be a spoon and a bowl but the bowl has holes in it, it also looks if the bowl is broken in different parts on it. The artist even decided to put a band aid on it to emphasize it’s broken. It also looks bent in some areas but the bowl and spoon are still in tacked. The colors make it stand out with its aqua blue and a tan color to compliment it. The bottom of the bowl is aqua blue and the top part is tan or brown. The spoon is full aqua.

Casandra work was a representation of how she was feeling when she was making it. She felt broken felt broken when she was making her art that’s why is there cracks in it being tied to show the process of being put back together. She mentioned to us it took her forty hours to complete her project and she usually spends six to ten hours in the studio straight without anything to distract her. The only thing on her mind is her art nothing else. She also does not eat when she’s in the studio she waits til afterwards and has a large meal.

My experience was at the exhibition went well, I felt like some of these artist are underrated. I was surprised with the quality of their work, I found so many interesting pieces in the matter of a few seconds. When I saw the art it caught my eye cause they were some crazy looking ones and I started to look into more detail and saw every little part of the work what gave me more information on the piece. It seems cool to make things from metal and turn them into something totally new and for it to have deep meaning seems even harder to do.