Wexner Review

David Smith


- Currently until April 15, the Wexner Center is showcasing David Smith's Cubes and Anarchy. As a renowned 20th century American sculptor, David seemed to use a lot of household or metal type items in his work. I definitely noticed how he used a lot of geometric shapes and pieces to make each design. In fact it seemed like all of his sculptures/works were mixed up geometric shapes. Two of my favorites from his collection were Saw head and Untitled 1958. Saw head was his first work, as a security guard told me, and it was one that actually made sense to me. The other favorite was a piece that had three vertical stick like things, one horizontal stick like thing across the other three, and a circle that went beneath the first two sticks and in front of the third one. This was oil and board on board and is very hard to describe. I would have shown a picture, but many of his pieces are untitled and I couldn't find one. For this piece I felt like I could maybe uncover what he was trying to convey from it. At least I could take something from the piece and it actually felt like he took time to think about an underlying message. I could be way off or wrong, but I enjoyed it and liked to interpret it. To be honest I didn't really enjoy his work too much. I feel really bad saying it, but I just didn't find his pieces visually stimulating to me and I found them really boring. I hate admitting that because I try to give everything a chance, but I guess it's okay if it's not always my cup of tea. Now if David was actually there and could explain his artwork to me, I think I could have a very different opinion. I want to know why he made certain pieces the way he did and what exactly was his motivation for each one, if there is one. That would help a lot, I think with my current opinion on his artwork.


Sarah Morris


-Sarah Morris's piece in the Wexner Center is called Points on a line. It is actually a 38 or so minute video with beautiful scenes captured in life. The camera(s) she used for this project were phenomenal. I loved how big the screen is too, it was quite unique watching it. To be honest I wasn't quite sure what she was trying to convey. Things kept on changing from one place to another. There were beautiful buildings in different places, sweet scenes of animals and the architecture was amazing. I didn't really understand it though. It was a pretty lengthy video and it was at times hard to keep my attention. I didn't understand the plot and I feel like the music was confusing on what emotion or message to feel. I didn't know what I was suppose to think, thus got pretty easily distracted. It was nice that they switched scenes a lot though. It's amazing how technology these days can cause things to look so clear on a screen. To be honest, I wasn't that impressed with the exhibit at the Wexner Center. I was kind of bummed. I know that these artists are passionate and put so much time and love in to their pieces, but I feel they weren't for me. This is weird of me to say, but I need to be honest. I think I just didn't feel that sense of connection or understanding with their pieces. Sometimes I like to think of art as a game in which you want to figure out what the artist is trying to convey to you, where does this fall in his/her life or what is the artist trying to express through their artwork. It was really hard for me to understand/see that in these exhibits.