Artwork
Artwork
New Paintings by Richard Kessler
Richard Kessler’s paintings rely heavily on images drawn from the iconography of advertising and popular culture (metallic lettering, poster girls, Hostess cream-filled cupcakes and plastic action figures). His work has less to do with that imagery than with the physical character of the metal and glass signage or the texture of whipped cream and cake. At the very least, those kinds of images are presented in his paintings as beautifully rendered, nostalgic objects and his treatment of metal signage is reminiscent of Robert Delauney’s cubist Eiffel Towers with similar dizzying shifts of perspective. Kessler says his art is derived, at least in part, from an interest in the Dadaists and their fascination with the idea that ordinary objects divorced from their intended function can be intriguing on their own, “like Marcel Duchamp’s urinal.”
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Collaborative Works by Street Artists Cryptik, Chor Boogie, Vyal One, Slick & Defer
Creating street art for display in a formal gallery setting often takes away from how it is traditionally created; i.e., painted collaboratively and applied directly on a wall. The goal of this exhibition is to more closely replicate how street art is produced by a crew of artists. Two large-scale works (4’x9’ panels) will be shown: one by Cryptik and Chor Boogie; and another by Vyal One, Slick, and Defer. The exhibition is drawn from a larger exhibition curated Brian Lee and presented earlier this year at Hold Up Art, a contemporary gallery in Little Tokyo.
Website: www.holdupart.com
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Interactive Video Installation by Michael French
DEATH-er A.E.O.N. AV is an interactive installation whose hardware consists of a video projector, a set of gesture-activated motion sensors, an array of electronic gizmos (digitizers for sending sensor data to a computer program, a midi-interface, cables, etc.), some audio components, and a laptop computer. At the heart of the installation is the Abreactive Engine for Occultism and Novelty (A.E.O.N.), a set of gesture-controlled algorithms that convert users’ hand motions into a kinetic, evolving stream of images and sounds, which are projected onto a wall, organized into magical incantations, and spat out into the ether at regular intervals. The potency of these incantations has not yet been established. The visual component of DEATH-er A.E.O.N. AV is largely drawn from occult symbolism and video game graphics, with a handful of pop culture ingredients that change in accordance with the whim of the collective unconscious. Obviously, the lines that divide these three image subsets are not always clear.Website: www.brnr.com
