On December 1st, I went to the Sidney Mishkin Gallery on the 22nd street for the Gallery Tour of Mercedes Matter. It turned out that only twenty people are allowed to go inside at a time so I had to wait around fifteen to twenty minutes. The gallery has two walls in the middle that separate the gallery into three rooms. Each room displays Mercedes’s paintings during a certain period of her life. The first room displays Mercedes’s earlier works. There are some of her realistic paintings when she was around ten years old. In the second room, we have the paintings she created when she was around thirty to fourty years old. The third room displays her paintings during her later life. The paintings in those two rooms are all abstract and hard to be understood. However, I think the instructor did a great job explaining to us about her paintings: the influence of the history and the science during that moment towards artists during that time and the usage of colors and line. This workshop has surely helped me to appreciate modern arts.