Otremsky's display impresses student
Sebastian Mclane
Issue date: 9/11/09 Section: Opinion
Bill Otremsky's one-man show is probably the first art gallery opening I have ever been to.
This was an interesting first experience for sure, having the chance to view this interesting collection and seeing the other people who came.
Openings are a bit louder and more crowded than other times, making the gallery less like a tomb and more like an event.
I personally enjoy viewing art on my own and in the quiet and solitude of an empty art gallery.
After touring around the show, I realized that Otremsky certainly is an accomplished artist.
Unlike some other contemporaries, these works are recognizably art, a nice change from "modern" art.
At the same time the many paintings still create a unique and unusual feel.
This is especially impressive in the renaissance style, with the amount of work necessary and the large size of the paintings.
The mix of old themes, such as the narcissus series, and the new way of looking at them is creative and enjoyable.
The center piece of the gallery was the see no evil painting, a giant work involving the nude form of a woman in three different poses, all interacting with each other.
Otremsky's focus on the human body is at once intriguing and disturbing.
The anatomic detail of the subjects is impressive, even for someone with little artistic experience.
Subtle shading and inherent lighting causes the bodies seem realistic.
To me the paintings reach toward the Uncanny Valley, a dip in a proposed graph of the positivity of human reaction as a function of a robot's lifelikeness.
Computer graphic and visual effects artists usually cite the uncanny valley as a problem they face.
In this case Otremsky seems to reach a level of realism that is indeed uncanny.
This was an interesting first experience for sure, having the chance to view this interesting collection and seeing the other people who came.
Openings are a bit louder and more crowded than other times, making the gallery less like a tomb and more like an event.
I personally enjoy viewing art on my own and in the quiet and solitude of an empty art gallery.
After touring around the show, I realized that Otremsky certainly is an accomplished artist.
Unlike some other contemporaries, these works are recognizably art, a nice change from "modern" art.
At the same time the many paintings still create a unique and unusual feel.
This is especially impressive in the renaissance style, with the amount of work necessary and the large size of the paintings.
The mix of old themes, such as the narcissus series, and the new way of looking at them is creative and enjoyable.
The center piece of the gallery was the see no evil painting, a giant work involving the nude form of a woman in three different poses, all interacting with each other.
Otremsky's focus on the human body is at once intriguing and disturbing.
The anatomic detail of the subjects is impressive, even for someone with little artistic experience.
Subtle shading and inherent lighting causes the bodies seem realistic.
To me the paintings reach toward the Uncanny Valley, a dip in a proposed graph of the positivity of human reaction as a function of a robot's lifelikeness.
Computer graphic and visual effects artists usually cite the uncanny valley as a problem they face.
In this case Otremsky seems to reach a level of realism that is indeed uncanny.
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