Gallery Analysis - Billy Fry

During the first gallery talk we've been through as a class, I seemed to really like and was impressed highly with the work of Otterbein artist Billy Fry. He had several different pieces in the gallery, including a few self-portraits, some acrylic paintings, a mixed media on nine small canvases, and two pieces done in walnut ink.

The two pieces I chose to really analyze of Fry's were the mixed media on canvas, entitled "Impressions of Metropolis," and one of the two walnut ink pieces, entitled "One Way." I picked the two of these because, although they are done in completely different venues with different media on different canvases, they both spoke to me about the city and what it's like to be alone within it.

Both pieces of work, despite their differences in color, texture, and other elements of work, I feel, speak about the same thing. About what it's like to be alone in the city. The perspective is amazing, how alike it is that we see a view from someone beyond who's in the painting, as if we are following around the man in "One Way" or peeking over the nine different viewers in "Impressions of Metropolis." Either way, I fell in love with both pieces, because they really define the "city sleeping alone."