Even though Monet wasn't my personal favourite — I was more of a Van Gogh kind of girl — I thought the poster classed up the bare
cinderblock walls place nicely with my stacks of books with USED SAVES stickers on the spine and the gigantic Windows 286 computer taking up my entire side of a shared desk and so I kept it throughout my years at university.
Setting the tone for severity, the artist commandeered the Brutalist ambience of the gray,
cinderblock - enclosed courtyard adjacent to the gallery entrance with a prominently
placed, bodily scaled, faux - concrete - and - asphalt work from 1994, Cell with Conduit, thrust several inches out from the
wall by a hefty steel armature.