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            David Altmejd is an Artist that created many beautiful sculptures that features a mixture of random objects put together. He completed his masters in fin arts at Columbia University and has a Bachelor of fine arts from Universite Du Quebec a Montreal according to andrearosengallery.com. Some of his works include “Wave” a wood, plaster, and burlap sculpture of a wave of hands being washed away, “giving / Talking” a wood, Chicken wire, metal, dyed face with bananas as horns. He was recently featured in a PBS art21 episode called “Boundaries.” This episode showed the behind the scene look of the process of how these works of art is made. Some pieces featured on the episode was “The Swarm”, “Le guide” and “The vessel”

            “The Swarm” is one piece that I really enjoyed because of the amount of stuff going on at the same time. This piece is huge. It was completely created from Plexiglas. It also had other materials such as chains, metal wire, thread, acrylic paint, epoxy resin and more. The piece had many things going on to it, but the one thing that you would see first is the swarm of bees flying across the exhibit with different color wiring following behind. Other animals such as ants made with the same wiring rode freely across the exhibit as well. One thing that I believe the artist David Altmejd was trying to portray was a sense of freedom by demonstrating the many different insects marching freely across the entire exhibit.

            David Altmejd also completed other art exhibits such as “Twilight Tale” which is currently being featured at Galerie de I’UQAM, Monteral, Canada. Just like “The Swarm” Exhibit, it is also completely made out of Plexiglas and other materials. One other piece that I really enjoyed was one called “The Vessel.” From a distance this piece may look like a boat or a vessel like object with paddled but as you get closer you start to see things such as hands made out of a rubber casting of his own hands and ears also made out of the same rubber casting of his own ear. Also featuring purple and light green wiring through the exhibit Plexiglas carvings of swans.

             In conclusion David Altmejd is a great artist with an incredible imagination. What makes his artwork unique is the fact that he doesn’t draw any of his exhibits out before he works on it. David Altmejd incorporates other materials that he works with such as Plexiglas into his exhibits. I don’t think there’s anything to dislike about his artwork just because I don’t believe there is bad art. I personally think that all art is good and it dependents on ones opinion.