MASS MoCA

LeWitt or Seuss?

by Abigail Cote

3-12-14

   

  Throw yourself into  “Oh, the Places You’ll Go” by Dr. Seuss and you’ll be transported to one of the drawings in the exhibition, Sol LeWitt: A Wall Drawing Retrospective.

     Artists and art students from Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven, Connecticut created this exhibition in Mass Moca. They are based off of the art of Sol LeWitt, an American artist who died in 2007. About 65 artists in total worked together on these wall drawings. The drawings represent LeWitt’s career, which lasted from 1969-2007.

     This exhibition covers three floors, which is equal to nearly an acre. These drawings don’t have individual names but are numbered. One specific piece is 793B. It is a drawing on the second floor. The colors range from shades of green to shades of yellow. There are oranges, blues, brown and white. The colors are in sections. The thickness ranges for each section and it curves up and down in a horizontal directions along the two walls that it covers. Some colors repeat like the red but others only appear once like the brown.

     The curved edges of these lines are easy on the eye. You can travel from right to left or left to right. As said before it seems as though this piece comes out of a Dr. Seuss story. And who doesn’t like Dr. Seuss? Anyone can enjoy this piece. It’s relaxing and at the same time colorful and bright. It’s not overwhelming because of the fluidity of the lines, but it’s not boring because of the precision of the color division and placement of each section.

     All in all, this drawing fits with all of the others but has something special to it. It’s placed in a back corner but should not be overlooked. However, it would not be as impressive without all of the other drawings on each floor to surround it. Sol LeWitt: A Wall Drawing Retrospective is something to be seen.