For my first event, I visited the Hammer museum looking at the the Charles Gaines gridwork that he developed. It was definitely an amazing experience visiting the museum and the reason why I chose to take pictures at this specific exhibit while visiting the rest of the museum is because Gaines made his pictures or "gridwork" using numbers. He drew a number, 1 through 9, in small centimeter by centimeter squares that culminated in an entire picture. I thought this was unique and it appealed to be as well because I too like numbers. This was an exhibit that also related to our topic mathematics and art. Not only did the pieces of art contain numbers, but they had to be systematically placed and aligned in order to come together in a final piece. Each color was a part of the rest of the grid that came together to make the pictures of the trees. I had really never seen anything like this before in my life, and it got me to think that this may be something that I could actually venture into. I am not a great artist by any means when it comes to any kind of freehand drawing. However, if I was able to mathematically create a drawing using a type of grid, and then just had to fill in the grid with different colors, I believe I could be able to do that. Perhaps this is a possible entry to a future career that I can have or it is a possible future hobby. Either way this exhibit made me very fascinated about this specific type of art, and pushed my thinking to another level.
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| Photo outworn the Charles Gaines exhibit |
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| Me outside the Hammer museum! |
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| Me in front of four of Gaines' works of art |
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