10-9-14
Justin Maes: Recent Works
On Thursday October 9th I attended the opening reception of Justin Maes’ recent works. I liked Justin Maes’ works of the American West that he saw at his home in Denver, Colorado. The exaggerated shadows that he physically gave to the two roosters and the cactus were nice because they gave some sort of a light source on the form of the object itself and it wasn’t from the light in the room. When I first saw the shadows though I didn’t realize there was actually a figure of a rooster standing at the end of it because the shadow is much larger and longer than the rooster itself; I noticed the shadow first before the rooster. In his larger wall pieces Mr. Maes used a lot of detail to surround a single bull’s head, on either side of the gallery. As a whole the piece represents something of a mandala, which is a spiritual and ritual symbol in Hinduism and Buddhism. The colors of the images are bold and bright and there are many uses of different line weights and qualities. Mr. Maes has two black and white drawings of a bull of either side of a three dimensional gold bull head. These drawings of the bulls are very well drawn from the shadows of the bull and the amount of detail that shows the muscles of the bull in its shoulder, chest, and face; as well as other details in the horns and hooves. He also had a pink sheep with four circular pieces on the wall at the entrance to the exhibit. The circular pieces individually were the image of a fish, birds, flower, and a butterfly. These pieces were interesting because of the material that they were made of, although i don't know what type of material it was. It looked to be something that was recycled and then cut up and put back together to create the images.
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