Minthorn Gallery Analysis

I visited the Minthorn and Lindgren Galleries as a part of the Student Art Show. The Minthorn Gallery was a large room with work along its walls, and there are several rectangular blocks in the middle of the room depicted more art. The Lindgren Gallery is a hallway area with works on one side. There was a wide variety of art including paintings, sculptures, pottery, dress designs, and posters. Compared to the other art shows I visited at George Fox, the works in these galleries were random with no common theme in mind. Plus, each work was created by a different student with different imaginations. It was actually pretty hard to find works that appealed to me. The works that caught my attention are called Mt. Hood, Athena/This Frankly Will Not
It was painted by freshman student, Ruth Speer. It depicts a woman with an angel wing holding a spear. Her wings are mostly gold with a few feathers painted white. The woman has a mixture of grey and white skin, and there is a red blush mark on her left cheek. Her hair is curly, and she’s wearing a Greek wreath in in her hair. I think the name of this painting is what sold me into analyzing it. The woman is likely to be the Greek Goddess Athena. She was known as the Goddess of wisdom, and military victory. The spear she’s holding is a likely reference to her control of military victory. I can’t tell if there are any signs to her being the goddess of wisdom in the painting, but the wreath in her hair does make her to seem scholarly in my eyes. The most confusing part of the work was the last part of the title saying, “This Frankly Will Not Fly.” It seemed so random, but I think I see what this part if referring too. Athena only has one wing instead of too. You can’t fly with only one wing. It makes me wonder if she lost her other wing in battle. For me, the painting captured the elegance of goddess even when she appeared to be
It was created by senior student Annie Puntenney. The sculpture was slightly bigger than the size of my hand, but it managed to depict the heads of three babies. At the bottom of the sculpture, there’s a large baby head with its eyes closed. Out of that babies forehead, the face of another baby appeared with its eyes opened. Finally, the top of the large baby’s head had the head of another baby coming out of it. Once again, its eyes were open. To me, this sculpture was unique and creepy at the same time. Without looking at the title, you would think that the large baby head is deformed. When looking at the title, the meaning becomes clearer. The appearance of heads from the large baby’s head indicates that it’s dreaming of growing up. It isn’t shown if the baby is still in the womb of its mother or if its already been born. Still, I think the purpose of this work is to show that babies naturally dream of growing up when they start to think. Despite only depicting a human baby, I think this sculpture captures the natural way of birth in all