Walking Royal St. and going in and out of galleries, I actually didn't find a lot that really spoke to me.  I was kind of surprised by that fact, but it is what it is.  Outside of the first gallery I went to, I found most of what I saw rather quotidian (No, I didn't just look that word up!).  I did find one artist in a small section in the upstairs of a gallery that held quite a bit of appeal to me.  There were a few of this artists paintings in the gallery, but some were not even hanging, and sat on the floor, such as the one above, which was my favorite.  It was small compared to the paintings by the same artist hanging above it.  Unfortunately, I didn't get the artist's name, and the people working the gallery were downstairs and talking to other people.  As I said, the artist had both very large, and relatively small pieces, so they do not adhere to a specific size of canvas.  I do not know if the difference in size had anything to do with what they were attempting to convey.  I do not even know what direction is up with this painting.  How it appears in the picture is how it was when I found it.  The colors and shapes, and how they were configured just really appealed to me.  Perhaps I like it partially because it doesn't, at least to uninformed viewers, seem to be of anything, or at least anything immediately and easily identifiable.  This does allow for interpretation by the viewer of what it is, or if it is truly of nothing in particular, it frees up the viewer to simply feel, unaffected by the artist's interpretation of a thing.  I just know that I was immediately drawn to this painting, after walking past many other pieces of work, usually moving past in a robotic, unemotional fashion.

To be honest, though, my favorite work I've seen may have not been in an official gallery.  As someone who loves the history of hip-hop culture, I usually find graffiti and tagging rather appealing.  I've seen some great tags done on sidewalks where the tag seemed to be done by dripping the paint; I'd never seen that before, but I like it.  The below picture, though, is my favorite.  A collective piece of the people's art.