Visiting The Museum of Art and Design

 Godspeed good readers.

The Museum of Art and Design, also known as MAD, is located at 2 Columbus Cir, New York, and sits right across from the entrance of Central Park. Viewing the museum in person is a thrilling experience, the piece they displayed was from jewelry to ceramics to paper dress and clothes. The museum had a variety of different art mediums displayed, and each floor was its gallery with a different theme on every floor. I believe there were 5 floors, starting with the fifth floor the show was called “ Funk You Too! Humor and Irreverence in Ceramic Sculpture” collecting 50 artworks from the ’60s till the present day, these works expand on Funk’s legacy of humor and expressive figurations. 

Personally, this exhibit was one of the most colorful and my favorite with the different characters and animals involved and how the sculptors felt like they had come to life. There were a lot of pieces that caught more eye but the one that came to life would be “Monster (Burping Bowl)”, 1977, by Clayton Bailey. This piece moved although it would just be light movements caused by the bubbles rising. This piece was one of my favorites even though it has personality.


Clayton Bailey, Monster (“Burping Bowl”), 1977, Ceramic 

This floor has many innovative pieces, from a giant woman made of earthenware and glaze to a circular wood panel with carved designs. This painting on the wall called “Buggy Bear on a Star-Studded Beach Adventure” was a vibrant painting of a bear made of what looks like shimmering sand on the beach, cautiously sticking its foot out into the water. There are sea creatures such as starfish on the land and on the bear itself. This piece is adorable and with the bear of things you can find on the beach, it is a very creative way to create a bear using the environment itself. 
    Another one of my favorite bear pieces is a ceramic bear piece that is all pink and holds a heart with little flowers on it and the artist's name, Alake, on it. This bear has a cute little hat with a heart on it, it is so charming the way the bear looks, even the little details in its nose are a little heart as well. These two bear art pieces were made by the same artist, Alake Shilling, who recalls the Lisa Frank and Hello Kitty aesthetics of her childhood, and she puts that into her work. Just like Diana Alvardo, Shilling’s art uses cuteness to trigger a desire to protect the bear, she examines the power dynamic of something cute and unthreatening and the yielding to care for and protect it. An art piece that is equally as cute, created by Diana Yesenia Alvarado, was this little angel ceramic piece, it had big puppy eyes and little red lips with a facial expression of looking up at you with a questioning look. Its cuteness is made to incite a power struggle among the feeling of dominance over an unthreatening matter and the influence the matter can apply to us. The puppy eyes the angel has is made to manipulate us into protecting this vulnerable object. In my opinion, this is one of the best pieces, especially the description it comes with.
Alake Shilling, Buggy Bear on a Star-Studded Beach Adventure, 2021, Oil painting, Glitter, sand, Styrofoam balls, and salt on canvas 

Alake Shilling, Baby Bear Loves Alake, 2021, Ceramic, glaze, and enamel paint

Diana Yesenia Alvarado, Lista Para Volar, 2022, Earthenware, glaze, underglaze, and luster 

    There were so many amazing pieces on this floor alone that it is one that you have to experience in person, to see all the vibrant colors used and the humorous sculpture around the room. The following floor was full of fashion, paper dresses, and other clothing from the ’60s. This floor feels more historical in the sense of the clothing style that was displayed and how on one wall there was projecting a fashion show from back there, showing off some of the clothes there was on display. Some of my favorite pieces were a golden foil-looking dress and a trench coat and dress. There were a few dresses I enjoyed on this floor but this one has to be my favorite, not much drew me to this floor, but at the end of it all I believe the fifth floor was my absolute favorite floor, it is the floor I spent the most time on. 
    

Jewel Tea Company Jacket, Belt, and Dress, 1966, Lustre-Weave (nonwoven polyethylene) 


This museum still has two more floors I have not even mentioned, and a sixth floor where you can eat after viewing all the displays on each floor and enjoy the view of Central Park while having a meal and relaxing. I would not want to give it all the beautiful artwork in this exhibit, this is one you have to experience in person. 

Godspeed my good readers.   

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