This year’s sophomore review was defiantly a new experience for me because I was actually a part of it. Usually when attending art events I’m part of the audience, and only have an outsider’s view. For this review, I actually got to hear people’s opinions about my own work. Another rally interesting aspect of the review was that a lot of the other student that were being reviewed have been in various classes with me since the beginning if last year. Being in classes with the, you were able to identify their work immediately, and see how much they have grown since their freshman year. Seeing them taking their own personal styles and apply it to their other classes is really interesting to see, and it almost turns into you being able to even identify them with their new work, based only on their particular styles. Knowing many of the students in the review, you could also know a lot of the background on some of the pieces they have done. For example, knowing that someone was from the city, or knowing that they come from a very small town. All of this could sometimes be seen in their various pieces. One of the most interesting aspects of the day was hearing people’s opinions about my own work. I think everyone’s comments were extremely helpful. One comment in particular was about my lack of color in my work, which is extremely true. Of course I have some pieces that I could have include with color, but I seemed to have been drawn with much more of my monochromatic pieces. Comments such as these have really inspired me to grown as an artist and try and explore new things.
