Meek Hall Gallery 130

Not Exactly There.

This expression, also the name of the exhibit, is used to easily describe my thoughts as I entered the room where the exhibit was held. This exhibit was held in Meek Hall gallery 130.

Gallery 130 is the University of Mississippi’s Department of Art’s gallery. The gallery features an exhibit each year that the undergraduate and graduate students put on for everyone. This exhibit, “Not Exactly There”, is showing from September 5 – October 6, 2011. Meek Hall Gallery 130 is open to the public Monday – Friday, 8am – 5pm.

As I entered the exhibit, there were multiple rectangular canvases that were all lined on the walls in the room. Each canvas was painted a different color. The colors ranged from bright blues, grey, dark green, white, and bright yellow. On top of the colored canvases were what seemed to be different colors of tissue paper cut and glued on to contrast the different colors. Some of the canvases had paint instead of tissue paper on them. The paint was in squares and rectangles on top of one another. The paint squares on the canvas ranged from big thick squares to little skinny squares layered over each other.

The theme of the art exhibit seemed to be squares and rectangles portrayed in an abstract way. This theme really stood out because these canvases were placed on a white wall with nothing else in the room. Because the canvases were so colorful and placed on a blank white wall the contrast between the colors on the canvases and the canvases against the white wall was more effective.

“I have not been to the exhibit in Meek Hall, but I do plan on going. I am not big on art exhibits, but I have heard from others how interesting the artwork is. I plan on going sometime this week,” Margaret Anderson

For more information on the exhibit and upcoming exhibits visit this website.

By: Haley Morgan