Susanne Vielmetter’s Gallery

Susanne Vielmetter’s Gallery located in the heart of Los Angeles is small and quaint. The building shares the same qualities as what a warehouse looks like, and the roof looks as if it is under some kind of construction. There are a total of two rooms each with different shows inside. The first room was dark and had almost a gloomy feel. This room held the exhibit created by Edgar Arceneaux called “A Book and a Medal: Disentanglement Equals Homogenous Abstractions”. All of these works in the first room were black and white, whereas the second room had the complete opposite look and feel. 

The second show room was bright in light and colors. This room carried the exhibit created by Ryan Mosley called “Band of None”. The paintings were vibrant in a rainbow of variety of colors and the walls were pure white unlike the first room, which was shadowed by the darkness of the room.

The placement of the paintings and works in the first room were wacky. There was a barn like box covering a TV on the floor. One can barely make out the video underneath the box. The feel of the first room felt like dehumanization. There was a video of a gorilla person crawling through a mass of city destruction and in the background was a speech from Martin Luther King. In the front room some of the pieces were eye level, but a good majority were either on the floor or high up off the ground. 

Viewing the exhibitions from online one can get a sense of feeling of how the actual show feels like. It is very accessible and easy to find the different exhibits to look at online. When you get to Edgar’s show the first three photos shown give the sense of darkness feeling in the room and it shows a great perspective of what the actual gallery looks like. Although, the pictures following those are definitely lightened and do not look like that in person. The first room has a much darker tone and feel than that is portrayed online. Unlike Edgar’s exhibit, Ryan Mosley’s exhibit was presented exactly how it looks in person as it is shown online. The colors are vibrant and the lightness of the room is depicted perfectly through the photos shown online.

The meaning behind these exhibits and shows cannot easily be understood either in the gallery or online. There isn’t any background information behind the artists in the gallery next to the pieces or online, which enables the viewer online and the audience in the gallery to try and interpret the meanings behind the pieces on their own. Overall, it was a very compelling gallery to visit with though-provoking artwork.