Evan Penny Analysis

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Evan Penny: “Refigured”

The experience I had to going to Evan Penny's exhibition called "Re-Figured" was amazing. It was located on the fourth floor of the Art Gallery of Ontario downtown on Dundas Street West. It was an adventure going downtown with my friend who is also in the Critical Issues course and we enjoyed the day together looking at art and grabbing a bite to eat. When I entered the exhibit, my eye caught right away on a piece called Stretch #1. It was a stretch portrait of a brown haired Caucasian male with a goatee. It looked extremely three-dimensional as it was a sculpture of a face stretched vertically and it was magnificent to study at all the details and real human strands of hairs on the sculpture. Around the sculpture was very blurred or resembled if it was being zoomed in; the eyes were large and bugged out, the nose was oblong and the head looked like a flat spatula. This was my favourite piece of the exhibit because it was the only one that looked the most three-dimensional and was the most interesting to stare at because you felt like the sculpture was zooming in on you. Evan
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Penny’s works are very inspiring to students like me who are studying art and wondering what to do as a career in future within the art field. Penny’s works instantly captures the audience's eyes and inspires the audience to look at objects or people in different ways. It has inspired me as well to look at people in a different way and for when I create art, I should distort it in various ways to see what meaning I can create out of it. I would just say that I really enjoyed “Re-Figured” as it was a fresh and different type of artwork that I have never studied or seen before. It was very inspiring because of the way he represents his sculptures and it was entertaining and interesting to stare at because of how such three-dimensional the figures looked to the naked eye and did not even have to wear 3D
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