Arts at Baruch – Gallery Tour: Mercedes Matter: A Retrospective

The gallery tour was pretty good. I had no idea that the gallery is actually dedicated to the artwork of an artist named Mercedes Matter. The gallery was organized from the art she made beginning from her childhood till her final years. It was interesting when the tour guide mentioned how many of us are creative as children but lose it as we grow up because we become more self-conscious about creating works that look realistic. Mercedes was able to maintain her creativity and express it in still life paintings. They do not look like anything in particular but it was very abstract, different, creative, and expressive, which is really what art represents. The tour guide said that the larger paintings can cost up to $85,000 because not everyone would want to buy an artwork of realistic images that you can see everyday but an image where a person’s creativity is expressed in a unique way. It was a great workshop overall and it was nice to look at the different artworks.