Student Award Show

 
                         Student Award Show

I attended the student award show in the Else Gallery on the Sacramento State Campus. The show included art pieces from different mediums that varied from paintings, photography, sculptures, and digital works.

 

 

 

 

The award show immerses the viewer into a contemporary gallery of art made by the students of Sacramento State. I viewed this gallery more than once. As a student who attends Sacramento State, it is a great opportunity to see some of the work created by the students we walk among every day especially from all walks of medium that we use in art today.

As a digital artist, I find the experience fulfilling to see digital works of art among the art that we expect to see in a museum. Talking with those who have seen some of my work, it's often that I hear this question. If you do this work on a computer, is it really art? I think in this day in age we have to remind viewers that new media is  flourishing and an expanding source in art today. Digital or new media expresses to me how much art has developed over the years to now see a computer as an art tool just like a paint brush.

I entered one of my digital works of art that was accepted into this gallery space. I created a video piece that was an exploration of a self-portrait in the way that the video is a story of how much music is a part of me and a center in my life. "Music is Me" gives the viewer a deeper look into myself. I like that the gallery presents the opportunity to see an example of the contemporary art that we are a part of creating. Art that is influenced by what we have learned in history, but have shaped from our own experiences in life.


                               "Music is Me"