- Exhibition Information.
- Artists: Jean Iwohara and Chanmealea Huy
- Exhibition: No Redemption Value
- Media: Ceramics, Wood, Drawing and Painting
- Gallery: LBSU School of Art, Merlino
- Website: jeaniwohara.weebly.com
- Instagram: @jelly.jean
- Jean Iwohara is a senior undergraduate attending CSULB. She is majoring in Art; yet studying under, Illustration. Her work of art is anxiety intensive. Anxiety explores the internal and external forces and how it affects human activities along with the side effects. This theme also discuses the long term effects of anxiety and how it can get viewers to understand the importance of anxiety.
2. For the work of art, what they are saying is that everyone has inevitably been through a phrase of anxiety one way or another. Yes it is a large whenever all the pieces of art are stored in a room as if were to be a museum; however, by analyzing each art piece by piece, it becomes small pieces. Nearly the entire gallery’s pieces involved brightly colored paintings involved. Yes, most of the pieces of art that I saw was straight, the colors of them were very consistent and went along with other colors. There was that one piece that I saw which showed a small sign of jagged. That belongs to the picture that has the robot lady that is connected to the wall because the pipes of the wall or landline, yet starting to break as time flies by. The way I interpret that image as if the lady was feeling anxious about the robot starting to break apart. The second image that I see jagged is photo which has one girl gossiping to the other girl. There are zigzagged lines that transmit from one girl’s mouth and that is heading towards the other girl’s ear. Due to the fact that the girl is gossiping to the other girl, it seems that the other girl is getting anxious for every word she is getting towards her ear. Regardless of what she has said, the girl feels very shocked about what she said whether it was a lie or a rumor. But other than that, most of the art had straight lines because of the way that the background is designed such as the usage of straight lines to build the factory as well as to build the structure of which the two girls are sitting on. No, the pieces of art were not black and white just as if they did not have color. Yes, there are both muted pastel colors and vivid primary colors involved. No, it was not the tiniest piece of art that I ever saw; however, I had to come up closer to see the piece of art to see it at a good point of view. No, it was not so massive as a shark.
3. Here, I assumed that the very first piece before knowing anything was where it can represent jail because I can see the chain look very similar to handcuffs. However, when I asked her about the blue portrait which had a person tied to a chain: “Will you really save me?”. She intended to focus deeply on religious anxiety. Religious anxiety applies to Catholics and eastern religion such as Buddhism. Essentially, what religious anxiety is asking non distinct members of religion such as priests, nuns, bishops, and god. For citizens that attend church, they ask themselves, “I did so many actions for so long which ended up being disrespectful and tried to confess about commuting adultery; yet, will the moral sins be forgiven or not?”. After the conversation, she knew that her art of work had to involve anxiety. Each day, when she is drawing a new piece of gallery which takes her about two weeks, she always thinks about how her mom inspired her to be a good artist. Knowing that her partner Chanmealea Huy was not here today, I was told that her art of work also heavily focuses on anxiety, yet was a brilliant idea to come up with an art show that involves the same genre.
4. For every other images that I saw after the first one, I got very interested to see how all of the paintings were; however, there was one that stands out from the all the pieces of art that I saw, which was the photo which was from the article “Headache”. The reason why I chose headache artwork was because it was easy to analyze. The way that headache was supposed to be analyzed was to apply it to where you can find a time where we were frustrated. The easiest example was back when I was a senior in high school, I tried an AP class for the very first time which was AP Calculus A/B. I tried very hard and studied on my own; however, I did poorly on quizzes and exams which gave me so much stress and lead to a headache. Towards the end of the first semester, I studied my but off, which made feel better about calculus; unfortunately, after taking the final, I got a D for the semester. A week after my first semester of my senior year of high school, I was anxious to tell my parents about how I did in AP Calculus A/B because of my parents were Asian. Therefore, if I got a D in one of my classes, I would assume that my parents would scold me for it. In reality, my parents were cool with me taking my first D in an AP class because I did not need to take that class in order to graduate high school and it was my first time trying a class way harder than a normal class. Yes, this resonates to her as well because for obvious reasons. Just because they did not tell you that one person did bad on at least one exam, it is inferred that at some point in life, someone will perform poorly and to take it as a grain of salt. The second reason why this resonates with her is because there were times that she felt anxious of how much more work is needed to be considered good art as well as to express times where she felt anxious about real life situations. Although I learned that anxiety is definitely a lot more than human anxiety, it is very inevitable that humans will feel anxious at some point in their lives. Also, anxiety plays a big role and has inspired many artists to draw many pieces of art which involves anxiety.
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