Pixel & Pen / Lucia Hwang: What's Up?

Pixel and Pen presents thirteen artists who use digital media into art using computers. The artworks are showing the importance of people in our society and the things that helped change the way we lived in technology, science, and law.

The artwork “Barack Obama” by the artist James O’Brien, is made using screenprint. It is a picture of President Barack Obama in a blue tie black suit. He is the first African American president in the United States and he brought change to the world.

The artwork “Madame Curie” by the artist Roman Verostko, is made ink on paper. There are writings on the bottom, and a pink cloth covering yellow orangish-green hair. Madame Curie is the first famous woman scientist.

The exhibition Lucia Hwang: What’s Up? is about arranging household objects and seeing them with material style. The artworks represent that material affects our emotional well-being. Seeing the outside of something does not mean that the inside is like the outside because we don’t always accept what we don’t see. When I first went inside the Gage Family Art Gallery exhibit, I saw red caution tapes circle around a girl shape drawn on the floor. It looks like a homicide drawing. The girl is holding a purse on one hand above her head. The girl shape was colored in with a designer purse design in colors brown and tan. In fact all four objects have the brown and tan designer purse design, except for the blue chicken. The second was the “Trash Can.” It is a trash can that looks like it was tipped over and fell on the floor spilling some trash out. The third was a wall of egg cartons colored brown and tan designs. Rows of white eggs sit in the decorated egg cartons. A blue chicken wearing black sunglasses and a brown tan designer purse around it’s neck. He sits in the middle of the wall looking cool standing on a board. The fourth is a white toilet surrounded by a bunch of toilet paper rolls. The paper wrapped around the toilet paper rolls were the brown tan design.

I liked both exhibitions. It’s cool how Lucia Hwang uses designer patterns to turn materials and objects to be viewed differently. Pixel and Pen is unique because it’s works shows the importance of change and how it could affect us.