December, 2020
We visited Wonderspaces during our wintering expedition of ’19-’20, and were mesmerized by the display of avant-garde art – aesthetic innovation and viscerally evocative use of shapes and design, in many different media to draw one out (in?) emotionally. The gestalt, the play of figure and ground or perhaps the whole being greater than the sum of its parts or perhaps the binding of the eye to color or shape defines the artwork. It’s in your mind’s eye to determine…
Wonderspaces is an evolving showcase of extraordinary art to new audiences – or is it new art to extraordinary audiences?
This work is a 4 minute animation of morphing pictures in which figure and ground change with frequency to create many, many different pictures. We’ve all seen something like this along the way…so what do you see in each of the following?
This piece starts with a monochromatic white room, moves through the “red” space, and ends with a ROYGBIV rainbow room which includes cylindrical objects affixed to the ceiling.
A favorite otherworldly creation playfully using mirrored light reflection to focus and dazzle.
Pure whimsy? Realism?
We sat down to absorb this piece with Brian in the corner of the room directly across from the center of the display and Barbara in the middle of the wall to his left. Imagine this – Barbara didn’t “see” Mount Fuji from her perspective – her focus was drawn to the bamboo, and she only discovered its central importance to the piece when seeing Brian’s photographs!
The “igloo” invites you into its core – sit or lay down, and take in the changing colors and patterns…
Experiencing Wonderspaces is a stimulating and evocative adventure in genres of art not often sought by the usual museum goer. There’s nothing done in paint, and therefore no paintings. There’s no sculpture in marble or bronze cast. And art work is not collated into an exhibition of 1 genre of art or a featured artist and disciples. Each display stands on its own, and we asked ourselves what we would take away from each artist’s work. Nothing short of marvelous as a beginning thought comes to mind.
We’ll be back for more as the exhibits change.
Barbara and Brian
Aimless Wanderings 
That looks like a lot of fun to me! I especially enjoy when shifting perspectives offers a new vision of a piece – AND – interaction (by way of entering and looking up) is something I find enjoyable, too. Thanks for sharing your photographs and your take on it! I really REALLY miss going to museums!!
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I do think you’d dig this place…tucked into a corner of an indoor mall just past the food court, and with its own entrance you get to enter this far out world and get surrounded with an unique experience. I hope we’ll all et ourselves back to the things we love soon.
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