For my second extra credit event, I attended the famous Miracle Mile exhibition. With Miracle Mile, Robert Irwin reconsiders the properties of light, material, and color. This site-specific work subtly plays with the architecture in which it is housed and responds to both Wilshire Boulevard and Primal Palm Garden, an outdoor installation Irwin created at LACMA in 2008. This exhibition also portrays the topic we learned in week one, which is two cultures. It correlates the relationship between science and art.
Another exhibition I attended was the Diana Thater: The Sympathetic Imagination. Through these projected images, we are able to see her marvelous work. My particular favorite was the images of the moon. In real life, the moon is really big and it's viewed by a projector. This also correlates with science and art, but it also emphasizes how advanced our technology is. Also, it shows the importance of technology and the variety of ideas that can come out through technology.
In an interview, Diana tells us how she couldn't paint, so she decided to do something she was able to do. She utilized the properties of the medium. She got her BA in art history but was always more interested in film history. I truly recommend visiting this exhibition, because it was such a fun place to take pictures and also learn about a different way of portraying art. It also encourages the audience to never lose hope even though you are bad at what you love, because there is always a different way to be a part of it. Even though she was mad at painting, she still didn't give up the art industry and made an innovative way to portray her artwork.
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