On Tuesday 11/17/09, I attended a tour of the Sidney Mishkin Gallery located on 22nd street. I went there with 2 of my other friends. At first, we thought it was inside the 23rd street building but later found out it was actually located in another building on 22nd street by seeing a group of other freshmen also going to attend the tour. Upon arriving, we saw that there was already a line crowding around the entrance to the gallery to my surprise since I thought that there weren’t going to be that many people there. I saw even more surprised however when a much bigger crowd came in. After waiting about 15 minutes, they let the first group of people in. Me and my friends were the 2nd group of people to go in which sucked because we were only a few spots away from being let in first. After waiting for another 10 minutes or so, we got let in. We quickly signed in and then was greeted by a friendly woman who happened to be in charge of the gallery. She then took us around the gallery leading us throughout the gallery. She started off with the earliest works of Mercedes Matter and they were all simple paintings, something that seemed quite simple but can be interpreted as something more than that. Then she led us to her later works and finally up to her works right before her death. Her works right before her death had really thick dark strokes. But one thing which remained consistent throughout all her paintings throughout was that they all had smaller geometric shapes in them in order to form larger items, especially the use of triangles. Also, her paintings all seem to have a table in them. Overall, I found this workshop to be somewhat interesting since I never knew that Baruch had an art gallery which hosted paintings like these. But, I don’t particularly like the style of these paintings so I don’t think I’ll be back to the gallery unless some other collection is showing. However, I found the experience to be interesting because I ran into my friend from elementary school whom I haven’t seen since then.