AWAW at Grey Art Museum
- jwingate44
- Apr 15
- 1 min read
Thank you for visiting Anonymous Was A Woman: The First 25 Years at the Grey Art Museum. Please use this site to post a reflection about your visit. Identify and illustrate your chosen artwork (use the photograph you took at the Museum) and tell me something about your experience and what you learned. What was it like to see the art in person? Feel free to use the questions on the handout as a jumping off point for your reflection, and/or to include information from the Museum label. You may further research your artist, if you wish. Please cite all sources that your reference. (Please also see the the tips for writing about art on Canvas).
Above: students viewing Valeska Soares' For To (X) (2017), Carrie Moyer, Flamethrower (2010), Elia Alba, Oscuras & Red (2022)
My name is Roselyn C. I was drawn to a specific painting called The Endless Weeping of Women. This picture shows women in a black and white setting, they are all looking at the audience instead of the TV that is in front of them. This photograph give me an eerie vibe since they are all staring at you, wearing all black. Seeing this in person, it made me question why the women weren't looking at the TV and they look intimidating since they are technically facing the viewers. Again, this art work intrigued me because of how most of the artwork in the gallery was just there and didn't really call to me, everything was interesting but this artwork…
My name is Liany Rodriguez and I had a fun time at the Grey Art Museum. I took some time to look around before deciding on Jeanne Silverthornes sculpture. The sculpture was titled chandelier and was made in 1994 out of rubber and resin.
What initially drew me to the sculpture was that there was more than one item to look at. You usually see artists displaying their message within one artwork. However, Jeanne used both a chandelier and stop light. Seeing the sculpture in person gave me a sense of morbid. It’s a dark object which is usually portrayed with bright lights and casts a shadow on the ground. When looking at it, I thought of the words dreamy…
When I first saw Elia Alba’s Ocuras and Red (2022) and Bond Bless (2020), I noticed their simplicity as just hands. But the more I looked, the more human they felt. The detail in the texture and positioning made them seem alive.
Reading the descriptions helped me see them differently. The red glitter in Ocuras
and Red feels bold, almost historical, like it’s telling a story through color and texture. The beads in Bond Bless feel quiet and intimate, like an offering or a symbol of community.
These pieces aren’t just sucplture peices, they tell stories and showcase how even something so simples as a hand can hold deep meaning, emotion, and history.
My name is Allison James I’m really loved the experience of visiting the Gray Art Museum. Many art works and pieces stood out to me but the one I choose stood out the most. Especially after readying about it. I choose Petah Coyne Untitled #1241 (Black Snowflake) 2007-2012. Seeing the artwork in person was really amazing because I was drawn to the artworks elegance and pristiness. When I read about it I was shocked to learn it was mainly made of wax by a sculpture. This artist wanted to represent female sculptures because she knew just only a couple years ago women didn’t have the opportunity to be sculptures. That made the artwork even more moving and drew me in.
When visiting the Gray Art Museum, there were a lot of different art pieces that were very unique and inspirational. They were all different from each other but the one that got my attention the most was Songs of the Islands: Concrete Music from New York 1996-98. The artist who created this is named Nina Katchadourian she is an artist who works with many different types of media, which includes photography, sculpture, video, etc. This artwork called me in the most because of how it looked compared to the other artworks in the museum. This one was right next to the screen with headphones, which is a part of the artwork itself as well. I thought that this was very…