MORE MEETS THE EYE: OPTICAL INNOVATION


Exhibited @ www.gallerythe.org
November 26, 2007 through May 18, 2008

Work by: 
Gene Greger
RoseRose
Harry Seldom


The artists in this exhibition are linked by both a common tool, 
the computer, and a common aesthetic thread: a visual complexity 
that exposes harmonies and truths normally unavailable to the 
un-enhanced eye.  They invite you to see deeply and clearly, 
following details and building associations to form a reality in 
your mind's eye that is bigger than the big picture before you.

Another link: Each artist's methods are innovative, in the sense 
that they create their work outside the standard means for making 
computer-based visual art, defining their own parameters outside 
of those readily available from a pull-down menu.  Freedom from 
the tyranny of popular tools has opened the door to startilng 
insights and expanded horizons.  One artist exploits artifacts 
within the processes of existing graphics software, extracting 
optical data through iterative "abuse" - the bug-turned-feature.  
The other two have abandoned existing software entirely, dreaming 
up and building their tools from original code before coloring the 
first pixel. (I'll let you guess which is which.)

And yet another link: each artist also regularly produces video 
work. These still images, complete on their own, can also be 
seen in this context as instantaneous glimpses of ongoing systems, 
possessing a past and a future.  Or perhaps containing within them 
the distillation of another, more time-based, process, with the past 
and present more explicit than implied.

These artists have created dense experiences for us to unpack 
and inhabit, testing the limits of their medium's potential in 
original ways.  Bringing the work of these artists together in 
this exhibition creates an opportunity for conversation, and by 
engaging in that dialogue we might triangulate a fresh perspective 
on the state of innovative expression in computer-based visual art.