Sacramento State’s Witt Gallery hosted “Party Obscura,” an art exhibit displaying watercolor paintings, digital drawings and skeleton arms, for the past week of Oct. 8 to Oct. 12.

The creepy theme expressed was planned by senior art majors Aiza Tallada and Lindsey White. 

White and Tallada have known each other for a year and they thought about the theme gallery last fall, soon after they met.

Tallada and White came up with the theme because they like “cult-creepy” art, death and decay. They said they both felt their art needed to be showcased in October because it is the month of scary creatures and ghosts.

However, White said most of their art is inspired by music such as Conor Oberst and Southern gothic folk music from Nick Cave.

Some of the art included a large deer head on a human body wearing a long Victorian dress, a framed art piece of a cake with worms coming out of it and a digital drawing of ghosts coming out from a woman’s body.

Objects like candles, fish skeletons, dusty, old books and jars with small tree branches or liquid adorned some tables around the room.

At the far end of the gallery was a woman who had a deck of cards and was sitting in a large chair next to a table with a ceramic white hand, glass ball and candle.

White said the fortune teller was a tarot card reader and having her attend the art gallery matched the atmosphere and ambiance.

Senior studio art major Melissa Shaw was told her fortune and she enjoyed the art.

“I love the small format of (some) of them (because) we get to look closer at them and usually I am used to seeing medium to big size stuff in galleries,” Shaw said. “All the extra stuff around, finding objects in places and the creepy table set (with) all the bones and candles.”

Tallada said she and White received positive feedback from visitors.

“We are actually really happy the way everything turned out,” Tallada said. “We’ve gotten some people scared.”

Senior studio art major Cat Xia said she enjoyed seeing her friends’ art displayed on campus.

“I love their pastel, hipster, cult thing going on,” Xia said. “It’s super adorable and kind of creepy.”

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