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Museum Critique
For my critique essay, I chose the Orange County Center for Contemporary Art (OCCCA) which was exceptionally close to home. It is located at the corner of 2nd Street and Sycamore Street right in the heart of downtown Santa Ana.
My first impressions as I pulled up into the museum’s parking lot was that it was the very small place, it looked like a store that sold art pieces. As I walked inside I noticed that it was a bigger than I thought. The gallery has 3 big open space rooms filled with dozens of pieces of art. As I you walk inside you will find the Atrium where the retail gallery is located, as you go inside there is the Grand gallery which is the biggest room and at the end, it is the project gallery.
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The first one was Lauri Hassold. She presented a sculpture called “Becoming the Forest”. The best way to describe it is to imagine a half deer and half tree or maybe a deer jumping out of some dried up tree branches. What I have noticed from other sculptures from Laurie Hassold in the gallery was that she has a way of combining and integrating nature, animals with some sort of mystical darkness to create works of art that seem to send the message that the earth, nature, and animals all are one entity whether it be in this lifetime or the next. I believe Lauri Hassold is trying to express through her work is that when an animal dies, it becomes one with nature, for example, when an animal dies in the forest it becomes one with it, when it dies it starts to deteriorate until it becomes soil and then new life is born from that soil starting a new cycle of …show more content…

According to a note next to one of his paintings, Jeff Gillette saw real third world poverty when he visited India in 1983. Gillette wanted to capture that aesthetically changed imagery and make art from his experience while also integrating accessories of our first world culture. He often uses characters from “Disney: the happiest place on earth” to counter the realism of the rest of the world. Jeff had about eight to ten of his sculptures around the gallery, which were called “mixed media”. His sculptures were made up of wood and they pretty much resembled a shack or an old worn out tin house, similar to houses that you would see in places around the world with the most poverty. The wooden huts kind of reminded me of a very old wooden shack that you would see in a swamp if you were in the ugliest part of Louisiana, the huts were worn down, but he was sure to integrate some form of happiness into his sculptures. Every hut had the same landscape but a different form of happiness. Some of the different characters that he had integrated with the sculptures were Mickey mouse, Winnie the Pooh, Tweedy, and Silvester. What I believe that Jeff was trying to present through his works of art was that every one that has the privilege to live in an amazing country like the United States of America should also stop to think that not everywhere is the same.

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