-The first photo, taken 37 years ago, shows a corner of the smallest third floor gallery at the Worcester Art Museum during one of many Contemporary Art exhibitions. Louise Nevelson's "Black Garden Wall III", created only 6 years prior, is stoically displayed against the wall at right. Today, as the Jeppson Idea Lab, the space has a more theatrical lighting scheme, but is once again used as a forum to present new concepts.
-The second grouping contrasts the two most recent exhibitions in the first floor PDP Gallery. Prior to these two shows, the space had not really seen much use of dramatic and bold wall color. Even today, several months after the "Proof to Print" exhibition opened, regular visitors can still occasionally be overheard debating which color they like better... the red or the blue. I thought I'd make a side-by-side shot for easy comparison.
-The "Animated Venus" sketch is a collaboration between myself and Janet Tremblay. I made 8 different sketches from various angles, 360 degrees, around the 1st - 2nd Century A.D. statue of "Venus" in the Roman Gallery. Janet strung the images together into an animated file. We had done a similar thing last year with an "Animated Caligula", also sketched in the Roman Gallery, and it was well-received. The last photo is of the 8 drawings in a row, for those curious about which individual views were used.
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Jeppson Gallery. Worcester Art Museum. by Travis Simpkins |
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PDP Gallery. Worcester Art Museum. by Travis Simpkins |
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Animated Venus. Worcester Art Museum. by Travis Simpkins |
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Animated Venus. Worcester Art Museum. by Travis Simpkins |