Upon my visit to the Blue Oyster gallery(http://www.blueoyster.org.nz/) last week I encountered some wonderful art projects that captured my interest.
After roaming through the main entrance of the building amongst a loud blend of what looked like imitation cardboard car wrecks and blaring television screens displaying post war footage from Iraq, An engaging piece but at the time was too intense for my uncaffienated conscience, This interesting yet very unnerving and alarming feature caused me to walk onward to the next artists space, that of Alissia Holzer's.
Alissia Holzer's works "Transcend Enclosure" consisted of 18 or so minutely sized canvas paintings. I thought they were charming and bubbly little artworks that dealt with, as Alissia puts it "Humanity and Habitat". Contrasting her paintings of waterfalls and wilderness against brick walls and buildings, she paints with a white background, vivid colours for the organic elements and grey and bleak tones for the industrial aspects.
I understood her work as being a protest against the destruction of our earth and addressing her love for our planets natural beauty. I happily stayed and studied the paintings for at least 15 minutes or so before leaving, passing by the cardboard wreck piece once again.
Overall it was a great visit and I enjoyed both the pieces that were there on display.
In case you're too lazy to scroll up heres the link again: http://www.blueoyster.org.nz/
Keep looking there for more upcoming and current exhibits.
Sam.
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