Emerge

First off, I confused the actual title of the event with "Emigre." I do that pretty often due to two reasons: I'm totally dyslexic. Wait... that's really the only reason.

Anyway, the show was quite enjoyable. I even managed to drag my older brother with me who is generally not too fond of art because he is a programmer. I came at the very beginning and spent at least two hours walking around the entire place, checking out every single piece. It was a very diverse mix of different types of art styles, ideas and even the actual format of some of the pieces themselves. It was especially heart warming to see works I was already familiar with, that is the works done by my fellow classmates and it compels me to participate the next time the event comes around again.

My first favorite piece was a piece that was on the far right side of the gallery from the entrance. It was the one that covered the topic of our current economic recession. I found it very intriguing due to the way it artistically represented something that almost resembles a chart, with indicators everywhere and even a legend with instructions on how to interpret the information. The illustrations were very helpful and were pretty well done.

The second piece I liked the most was Helen's piece on Darfur. For me, it was not only because I found the idea to be very clever, but it's also the fact that a subject like Darfur is very difficult to cover - let alone send the message across and actually get people to listen.

It was definitely worth going there and I plan on attending shows of that kind more often from now on.