Cannonball press exhibit

My reaction to this exhibit was something along the lines of WOW! DAMN! or better yet HOT DAMN! The discipline of woodcut fascinates me and the works in this exhibit were no different. The larger works amazed me at how clean and detailed they were, and I often found myself laughing at the subject matter. I felt that the press was making contemporary works about the freakish world of carnival and circus performance. I didn't have much of a chance to fully explore each print but the ones I was able to take in all seemed to follow this theme of oddity and bizarre persons and productions. The statement matched this subject matter with an odd twist on baking/cooking that also produced some laughs. The entire body of work seemed to deal greatly with rejecting the seriousness of "fine art" and appealed to me in the same way an underground musician or poet would. The general goal of the show seemed to be to make people think about what art really is and how this "serious buisness" of art can be easily rejected without losing the integrity of quality work.