Museum Review

I went to the Prichard Gallery at the University of Idaho. The current show is called SLAG: The Anti Art Glass. Their mission statement at the gallery is summed up by being a leader in presentation of contemporary visual arts in the Northwest. They also strive to encourage experimentation from emerging as well as established artists. The exhibit that is currently at the Prichard Art Gallery is a combination of different international artists who use glass in a mixed media approach to formal, aesthetic and cultural ideas.

There are artists in the exhibit who are familiar and those who are not with the glass art traditions. I have been in this gallery before and I do think it is a nice space to show art. I especially like that there is an upstairs segment to the gallery in which there is both art upstairs as well as a broader view of the entire gallery. As for the art that was being shown at this exhibit, it wasn’t exactly my sort of thing but since I am an artist as well, I can appreciate the art of others.

Overall, I thought the exhibit was very interesting. It made you want to look around at everything especially because some of the pieces were very odd. I thought the gallery lighting was well suited to the glass artwork. The appeal of the museum was very apparent. Nestled on the corner in downtown Moscow, this gallery is a quant little piece of the outside world of art in a small town. I enjoyed looking around this gallery. Because it was so open and inviting the gallery space was perfect for looking around at all the art. One of my favorite things about the gallery is the hardwood floor and the clean white walls as the background. The experience I had at the gallery was very fun. As I said earlier, the glass art was not really my thing. Some of the artwork was very out there. For example, there were two larger jars sitting next to one another, one had an eyeball in it and the other had a dropper that was dropping blood into the bottom of the jar. One of my favorite pieces there was a white beehive and a black beehive. They looked like something out of a children’s book and I thought they were very detailed. In my time spent at the gallery I felt like this space was very well used and I loved how open the gallery was.