Seasons on St. Croix Gallery

I went to the Seasons on St. Croix Gallery in Hudson, WI. There were many things there. There were hand made jewelries there and they are very colorful. It would have been nice as Christmas presents for families and friends. Candles, metal art pieces, handmade pottery, and wooden pieces were displays set on shelves and the walls. The candles were a colorful triangular shape with round edges and neat to look at. Acrylic and water color paintings were hung on the walls. Glass ornaments in decorative ball shapes were hung on metal trees. Many glass plates, glass jars, and other small decoration pieces were very beautiful in color, design, and shapes. Hand made cards, winter mittens, scarves and hats were on display. The winter mittens were cute because each mitten didn’t look the same. Each had similar colors but the fabric was of different designs. Each had different buttons as decoration on the mittens as well. It is something new and I think it is creative.




The art pieces that caught my eye was the very large clay jars. Most were about five feet which is as tall as me. The large jars had covers on them and one jar had a life size bird on sitting on top of the cover. There was a room in the corner where many other large jars were kept. It looked like a work room where the jars were made. Another art piece was the ceramic “Wall Sculpture” made by Kelly Jean Ohd. It was a row of patterned bars placed next to each other but not touching. I enjoyed looking at the many patterns and designs it had. It had a home décor look to it and I would have liked to have the piece in my living room. I enjoyed looking at several slim sculptures that were of people doing different activities. The slim sculptures were pretty tall about almost a meter long. There were six inches trees that were made out of glass. Each glass piece was square shaped and stacked on top of one another. Towards the top of the tree was a small square. It was very interesting to look at.

The Walker Art Center

Benches and Binoculars had paintings that were next to each other on the sides, top, and bottom. The artworks covered the whole sides of two walls. It was neat to use a binocular and look at the paintings that were so far up towards the ceiling. Some paintings you can just look at it and know what it is and others you need a binocular to get a closer look. The binoculars can give you a view of the details in the art paintings. There were acrylic paintings, photography, and oil paintings. There are realistic and modern arts. Many colors were used. Some paintings were rainbow colors and others were darker colors. There were small and big sizes. I did enjoy the views of many types of paintings. It’s different in a good way to sit back and look at the many paintings on one side of the wall. Then turn around and view the rest. Usually, most museums have paintings that are lined up in rows and no benches to sit on. So, experiencing Benches and Binoculars was enjoyable.

The Event Horizon galleries had artworks from various artists. I found the two Egyptian lions with the head of a human interesting. It’s faces were covered with pillows with lamps tied around it. The lamp lights were turned on. There was a circled art piece called “Light I” by artist Jim Hodges. It had small pieces of mirrors in a circled pattern. It was an eye catching artwork. Another art piece was the “Whitefield” by Gunther Vecher. It was painted white nails that were nailed onto a white board and the nails were bent to look like grass fields blown in the wind. It caught my eye as well. It was neat that the nails can be created to like alive. There was a room with two opposing mirrors, two recording cameras with time delay, and two video monitors. When I stepped into the room, the cameras recorded me and I could see myself in the monitors like one minute before. It was neat because the mirrors reflect each other and it looks like an infinity.

One large room in the Haegue Yang: Integrity of the Insider was red. It had fans, red light, and blinds that hung from the ceilings. Behind it was a room with musical equipment and instruments. The next art pieces that caught my eye was the written letters that looked like they all got soaked in water. Some letters were written in black or blue ink and wrinkled. The letters were blurry and hard to read. I think that it was the intention of the letters by the artist. It was a unique exhibit and experience.

The Elemental exhibits were 3D shapes in squares and rectangles. The artists use strings to create a cube in corner of the walls. By using the wall and strings, the artists make their art piece. To me, I think is amazing, what things they use to make minimalism art. There were objects in the exhibit that were gray square cubes. One object was a blue rectangle but when you walk around it there is a tunnel that you can see right through it. I think Minimalism is simple to look at because when you look at it you can see it for what it is.

The Goldstein Museum

The Goldstein Museum Gallery exhibits office furniture since the early 1940’s to 1970’s. Charles and Ray Eames designed and make lounge chairs, reclining chairs, cabinets and desks. Most the chairs are molded plywood and rounded on the edges. The chairs with the rounded edges remind me of the wooden school desks in the late 1980’s to early 1990’s. Even today, most school chairs are made of plastic and not wood anymore but the seats still have the rounded edges. Indoor and outdoor reclining chair were designed for comfort with a pillow to place a person’s head. A matching ottoman for the feet to rest on. They used calfskin for a plywood chair which is pretty stylish. Their furniture designs were dated since the early 1940’s and helped shaped the value of furniture designs in the office and home.

George Nelson’s designs are dated late 1940’s to the 1970’s. He designs furniture for specific uses such as desks for typewriting, phone desks, tray tables, and loveseats. The blue loveseat is made of foam cushions in circles and is probably very comfortable when we sit on it. The communications center is a desk with a phone placed on the top left of the desk. I’d say that George wanted to change the way furniture looked. Usually, furniture is for people to sit on or work. But he designed furniture to look fashionably different from what people are used to seeing and at the same time it is comfortable furniture for the body. George Nelson’s role at Herman Miller was to design furniture in American modernism.

The overall message of the Herman Miller’s company is to get real. According to Herman Miller “Good Design” is the quality in furniture. Furniture are designed to give an office space extra room and help in work production. Herman Miller designs create comfort furniture and assists in an organized work space for his clients.

The Charles and Ray Eames furniture design, which caught my eye was the lounge chair with the brown-white calf skin over molded plywood with chrome legs. It is amazing with the idea of calfskin on plywood in the 1950’s. It is something different and at the same time one of a kind. The red dyed molded plywood lounge chair was interesting because of its bright color and looked like a modern style. Like, it is a chair that we would still see today but was made and created in 1947. The loveseat or marshmallow sofa designed by George Nelson caught my eye because of it’s nice color and circled foam cushions. It looked nice but made me wonder if it would be comfortable to sit on with so many circles. Since people are shaped differently from each other. They make sure that the chairs are comfortable to sit in because people use and need furniture everyday. I enjoyed the exhibit because I didn’t realize that people do put a lot of thought into designing furniture.