Review #4

Photograpy Invitational Students were chosen from the photography department at Wichita State University by Linda Robinson. The work shown in the Clayton Staples was a collection of what is going on in the contemporay photo world. Karrie Maxwell a graduate painter had several photo in the show. The format for the pieces ranged from 2"x2" to 24"x36". Her work is a very interesting collection based around  how an individual feels on a daily basis. Her work is presented in traditional balck and white, but the excitement  for it comes from the content within the photo. When the viewer looks at the work of Aaron Vaugh, they are taken back to their own experiences of feeling lost or alone. He works in painting, video insatallation, and photography. His video piece in the show  is based on the viewer witnessing a figure isolated and blurred in a way the allow the viewer to place themself in to the video. The figure is surounded by other figures but you do not know it they are a couple or a shadow. I have chosen to compare these two bodies of work based on the similarities rather than their difference. They both have a very sad and emotional motivation that allows the viewer to bring very little to the work from their own background, but are left with a blurred emotion of the artists background.