Artist Interview

Artist: Alyssa Stroud

Exhibition: Metal and Jewelry

Media: glass, metal, copper

Gallery: LBSU School of Art, Gatov West 

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The person or I should say Artist that I interviewed for this essay was Alyssa Globorin who was just one of the artists who contributed to the metal and jewelry gallery as the gallery was a group exhibition and she happened to be there the day that I went for the interview. Alyssa Globorin is from San Diego and has recently transferred from a community college called “San Diego Mesa Community College” where she got her AA degree. She is an undergraduate student here at Cal State Long Beach that is majoring in Studio Art and is trying to focus on working with metals while she is attending the school of art. This is Alyssa’s third year of schooling as she has completed two in San Diego and has started her third-year last semester while she tries to settle into the new school’s atmosphere she has her mindset on graduating from Cal State Long Beach with a BFA in the School of Art Studio Art program.

The piece of art that Alyssa presented to me in the gallery was her very own and the way it came off on me was unique, weird size, weird bumps or lumps, and the color that was all over the piece. The materials that were used to make the piece were just copper which gave it a nice old mysterious look to it that made me wonder was it was and what its purpose was as well as I just saw a circular object. The piece also had some bumps or lumps on it which gave it its’ unique shape as the bumps made it uneven for it to lean flat on the floor which left it to stand on its’ side. Another distinguishing mark that it had all over the place was an “X” now I do not know what it means but it must mean something for the artist for her to place this all over the piece of art that she made. Last but not least the piece of art had a lid to it where you can place it in the hole or leave it out on the side like she did when she was presenting it to me, also one more thing I forgot to mention were that the bumps on the piece of art came in all shapes since some were big and some were small making it uneven for it to stand on its’ own.  

The piece that the artist Alyssa made was for an assignment where they had to make a container. Her thought process was to take the container idea and put a twist on it since she wanted her to stand out more. Her goal was to make the container expand so that it would not look like your average everyday container plus she wanted the piece to not look like it was a container but something else that had a lid to it. The other goal she wanted to achieve in the piece was to freeball it as she wanted to have a little plan to start with but end with a piece that she did not know where it was going to end up as. She successfully did that but the result was not what she had wanted nor hope for since her idea was to have the bumps all around the circular object. Instead, it came out with bumps with a bunch of gaps of open space between each one of them which made it look unique and eye-grabbing.

What I got out of this piece of art was that you need to be unique you gotta be your very own you can not just go agreeing with whatever a person tells you or what someone is expecting of you you just have to do you. Alyssa’s assignment was to make a container she did that but she did it in a way that I would have never thought of the way of doing something different but ending up in the same place or with the same results. You might plan things like how Alyssa planned a certain way to do the container, but you might end up with a different result as not everything will go according to plan which leads you to either go with what you have or leave it all behind. The ability to be unique, take different routes, and either go with the plane or fall behind is all the factors that I got from interviewing Alyssa and by examining the piece of art she showed me. This is what I got from the piece of art that I was shown and from what Alyssa was telling me while interviewing her this is exactly what I kept thinking as I talked to Alyssa about her piece of art and as I walked away from her gallery.