Penelope Umbrico Lecture. 10.5.09.

Penelope Umbrico is so amazing. Thank you Paul, for arranging her lecture! Hearing her speak about the general public's reaction to appropriation was really interesting. What I love about going to the lectures is realizing that these artists aren't so unattainable! Penelope seemed super down to earth and easy going, I want to be her friend. I kind of spazzed out when she showed the cracked LCD screen series, because I have shot an almost identical series as part of my color experimentation for this semester! Whoa! Soul mates? Hope so! Also, I really loved it when she was talking about the Leonard project ideas, the gold frames...right up my alley. I went up to say hello to her after the lecture and babbled about the above similarities for a second...really excitedly. She was really polite about my ramblings, sometimes I wish I had the capability of being cool, but that's okay, I loved it. I'd seen most of the work she showed previously, on her website, but seeing on the projector was great! The series of mirrors, about displacement was really beautiful. I love the subtle context clues that her work has, it doesn't scream it's concept at the viewer, but it's all right there if you look. Oh! and the honeymoon window view series, also phenomenal. So good! She is a genius!