Video Art!

Video Art!

Video Art!

I went to the C. Grimaldis Gallery for my critique. The exhibit there is called Margaret Evangeline:Too Pure Water, which is an exhibition of Evangeline's "paintings". Evangeline "paints" by shooting (with real bullets) at large pieces of polished metal.
Mike Giuliano of the City Paper states that Evangeline's pieces possess a "violent beauty"°, and I would definitely agree. The holes created by the bullets are rough, contrasting with the smooth surface area. The surfaces practically invite the viewer to touch.
Evangeline uses a variety of different sizes of bullets on her "canvases", which creates differently sized and shaped holes. Some holes are shot at close range, invoking a halo around the hole, while others are shot from further away and still some do not necessarily puncture the metal.
J. Bowers, another City Paper writer describes Evangeline as "a cross between Jackson Pollock and Hunter S. Thompson"†. Bowers means that Evangeline's pieces have a painterly quality but also a destructive side.
Also as part of the exhibit is a five-minute video documenting Evangeline's creative processes. It is one thing to see the pieces themselves, but actually watching Evangeline create her pieces is art among itself.
I think Evangeline's pieces on the whole comment on the destructive nature of beauty, or possibly expose the hidden beauty of destruction.

°Giuliano, Mike. "Critic's Pick: Margaret Evangeline: Too Pure Water and Christopher Myers: Standing on Two Eyes". Baltimore City Paper. 22 November 2006. (web) Available at:http://www.citypaper.com/calendar/event.asp?whatID=81842

†Bowers, J. "Margaret Evangeline: Too Pure Water". Baltimore City Paper. 29 November 2006. (web) Available at:http://www.citypaper.com/arts/story.asp?id=12959

These images are courtesy of the C. Grimaldis Gallery.

 

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