Jeffrey LuongAHS-007Professor Goux8/20/2014

Museum Report

For the exhibition report, I decided to choose the riverside art museum. Once I entered, the receptionist at the front desk on the left greeted me. I paid the admission fee and was offered a visitors map. The first thing I noticed was the structural design of the building. The structure was built like an exhibition two stories tall, with the main attention focused in the center almost like the buildings in Italy with balconies overseeing the streets. In the center were two plastic wrapped human-shaped artworks, one hanging from the ceiling in the air giving the intention of flying, and the other in a stance as if drawn a rifle directed towards the center. The description included the artist and his statement along with a short biography of the artist, Gary Rainsbarger. He titled the artwork, Assault on Liberty. In the back of the center was a painting quite magnificent, as it depicted waves attacking the rocks with a lighthouse overseeing the sea. Surrounding the center were two halls along with the front, and a small shop. The halls contained beautiful photographs, timelines, biographies, and artifacts some even for sale, and in the end of the hallways were interconnecting rooms leading to another room containing more art. In the right room contained a room called the 2014 Members Exhibition: Still life: Remixed 8/8-8/28. This room was by far my favorite room. When I entered the exhibition, I was captivated by the beautiful creations of art; paintings, sculptures, and photographs with numerous types of mediums and techniques surrounding me. I was pleased to have some sort of knowledge in the techniques and mediums learned in class such as the oil on canvas, pastels, acrylics, and sculpting but also impressed by the many other mediums Ive never seen like watercolor, enamel on copper cloissone, monoprint, and mixed media. All of these artworks were an original art piece chosen by their members displayed for 2014 and most are available for sale in a catalog in the entrance of the exhibition room. Some won awards such as the Best In Show Award, by artist Jeff Owens, for his art piece Flaming Smudge Pot Tree. It portrayed a beautiful tree with what I believe to be candles on the end of the branches and contained a description in the art piece itself. Most of the art in the room seemed to be abstract stylized yet still could be able to contain a beautiful meaning. On the left side of the hall connected an enormous room dedicated to the collection of a professor who was obsessed with photography of stadiums and shirt collections. The professor, Jim Dow, captured amazing panoramic photographs of soccer stadiums and also collections of baseball jersey shirts. Onto the second story, it contained a youth class studio classroom and another very interesting room. This room called, Building Imagination: The Art of Garner Holt Productions, Inc, and this was particularly amazing as it contained realistic costumes of humans. This company in particular produces animatronic figures, special effects, show action systems, parade floats, and many more for famous organizations such as Disneyland. Inside the room had a life-like costumes and rubberized faces. Despite the creepiness of the room, it was fascinating to see and learn about this company that creates amazing figures for well-known companys! Overall, my experience at the Riverside Art Museum was fantastic. It was a fairly small museum but definitely contained a tremendous quantity of amazing art! With knowledge learned from our art class, I truly felt like I could understand and appreciate art better.