Just a few short days ago, Grace Gallery’s Posters from Chile exhibit closed. I hadn’t known about the exhibit’s presence before professor Goetz suggested we take the time to go view it. However, even after visiting the exhibit, I’m still not quite sure what was the purpose of it all.

When I walked into the Grace Gallery, all I saw were images posted to the wall with small descriptions under it and a sign off to the corner with the exhibit’s name. No where in the vicinity did I see a description of what the art show was about. Furthermore, the descriptions of each art piece didn’t have any backstory or something that could tell me why it was significant enough to have been placed in the art show to begin with. It mostly had a Spanish explanation, followed by an English translation, and then maybe what magazine it had been originally seen in or something like that.

All of the images within the gallery had an agricultural theme to them mostly. Advertisements are not an interest of mine, so it was difficult to choose three pieces in the show that I liked. Most of the images had a vintage, painted look to them (which only makes sense since the pieces were dated within the early-mid 1900s). However, the three pieces I chose are the following:

These three images caught my eye because of their vibrant, rich colors. With the exception of the middle image, they looked like they could’ve been painted to be hung in an art gallery somewhere if the words had been omitted from each picture. The middle image looked like a simple logo and its minimalism (despite having a bit of type on it) was a little bit interesting to me. However, generally speaking, none of these images would initially grab my attention if I had seen them anywhere else. In my opinion, these happened to be the most interesting within the limited gallery stock.

I’ve visited a lot of museums in New York, and each exhibit always has a description of what an art exhibit is about so any visitor not only knows if what they’re about to view is for them or even just what to potentially expect to see. The Grace Gallery Chile Poster exhibit did not do that. Even the flyer I stumbled upon near the elevators of the 11th floor lacked any detailed information of the show. It reminded me more of when theaters advertise broadway shows and never tell you what the story is about. You always have to do the leg work in order to figure it out. However, this is a constant problem I’ve noticed for a lot of flyers posted around school that are for events going on within CityTech. Overall, I wouldn’t even have recommended the art exhibit to anyone I know. I wouldn’t even know how to explain what it was they would be going to see without having originally known myself.