Wednesday after class, Michal, Stephan,  Taja and I went to Arlette Tebele’s Pop-Up Art Galler. Arlette Tebele is 23 years old and a New York Based Artist. She grew up in Brooklyn and went to FIT for college. According to her bio, she always loved to draw and paint and got most of her inspiration from the streets of Brooklyn. Her motto is “just a girl who was born to dream- minus the sleep.”
Before going into the Pop Up Gallery, I honestly did not know what to expect. I’m to the biggest fan of art, but the pictures that I saw of the gallery were so cool and I decided to go.  We walked in and all I saw was a lot a lot of yellow. Yellow walls. Yellow stickers. Yellow smiley faces. And most of the paintings had some type of yellow in them. Arlette Tebele’s logo is a yellow smiley face with the younger sticking out. We were also were the only ones  in the gallery at the time. There was paintings of Kanye West, Michael Jordan, and cartoons of just about everything. The gallery also included a basketball hoop and a bunch of quotes throughout the store such as, “I dream of you in colors that don’t exist” and “don’t worry baby”. I loved how she made the gallery so personal and relatable to her audience. She had this huge poster with a smiley face in it and sharpies where everyone can sign their names and kinda add to her artwork. My favorite part of the store was as soon as you walked in, on the side there was a big empty space on the wall. Starting at the top where a bunch of Polaroids of people who visited Arlette Tebele’s art gallery.  We took a Polaroid, signed our names, gave to the guy to put up on the wall. I haven’t been to many pop up shows, especially not art ones and this was really interesting.