will show a version of color study (work in progress) tuesday evening (15 april 2008), around 9pm.
http://www.eriksanner.com/2008_for_blog/080327_color_study_v5.pdf
location details:
5C cultural lounge, 68 avenue c, at 5th street and c
http://e32.hitart.com/
free and open to the public, you are welcome to attend.
1) showing something (not sure what yet) at e32 this coming tuesday (2008 april 15). maybe final documentation of chess, maybe a new piece, maybe create something live, maybe make something just before, will decide tonight or tomorrow morning.
http://e32.hitart.com/
2) here's a much briefer explanation of spring planting with only a single set of images based off of a single imaginary plant. imagine what it will look like with tens or hundreds or thousands of different plants, real plants. i can't wait to see this piece.
http://www.eriksanner.com/applications/spring_planting_flash_080411d.html
fuller version if you haven't already seen it (pdf):
http://www.eriksanner.com/applications/spring_planting_rh.html
still have a few days to refine my clarification of spring planting. each proposal needs a webpage, got that up today.
http://www.eriksanner.com/applications/spring_planting_rh.html
what am i doing? trying to figure out if a picture posted on my blog can be coaxed to show up automatically on my facebook page.
at vineel's, he's explaining a bit about how people use facebook and what it's for, setting up an rss feed so when i post something here, it shows up on my facebook page, so i don't have to double-post every blog entry.
vineel is awesome. thank you vineel.
for traffic cones.
yesterday evening:
this morning:
and then a few days ago, i got a cone alert from steph, finally witnessed it myself tonight. see it?
(behind a discarded fridge, in pieces, near the freight elevator at laumont)
some of my most memorable traffic cone encounters have come from hot tips. thank you steph!
the issue with this one is similar to that day-and-night one last week - which is more pathetic, glare-of-light or ensconced in the shadow world?
everything we know about is changing all the time. paintings fade and crack. trees fall, new growth springs up. technology is evolving at an accelerating pace. and each of us is a constant work in progress, either developing ourselves or lapsing into decay, but never static, never still.
in my work, i use computer processing to montage painted and filmed images which are in a constant state of flux. i create “moving paintings” which give the viewer a unique experience every time they are seen. i avoid video loops in favor of non-linear projection onto prepared surfaces such as painted canvas. my new media installations are simultaneously filmic and painterly.
i aspire to continually explore the expanding possibilities of art. this is both my goal and my method of artmaking. by striving to create something new, perhaps i can help shed light onto who we are becoming.
trying to better understand the new palette. decided to do a limited color study, using only two colors instead of a full palette, and still images instead of video.
painted a square canvas half yellow, half blue (this is a digital photograph):
cropped, duped, and rotated a digital image of that canvas (this is a screengrab):
projected the digital yellow and blue back onto the canvas (this is a digital photograph). the studio light is on. top left is just yellow oil paint, top right is just blue oil paint. middle left is blue projected onto yellow, middle right is yellow projected onto blue. bottom left is yellow projected onto yellow, bottom right is blue projected onto blue. think the colors look a lot more intense when you're projecting a color onto the same color.
here's a different one (also a digital photograph), just rotated the digital image of the canvas. studio light is off. top left is yellow on yellow, bottom left is blue projected onto yellow. top right is yellow projected onto blue, bottom right is blue on blue. it's subtle, but there's definitely a difference between bottom left (blue on yellow) and top right (yellow on blue).
was surprised both by the intensity of the color-on-same-color and by the similarity between yellow-on-blue and blue-on-yellow.
for the past few years i've tried to go to every single art fair in nyc. it's worth the energy. you see work from all over the world you might not encounter otherwise. ultimately i think it's really efficient. it takes a lot more effort to go to several galleries in chelsea any day, waiting for elevators and walking from building to building. a lot of people complain about the art fair experience, the simplification of what a gallery could offer, the relative uniformity of the spaces, the crowds, the "vulgar" emphasis on selling, and sure, there's a lot to bash if you want to critique the blossoming of art fairs over the past several years. but i really enjoy them. part of it surely since i'm not a collector or a gallerist or an exhibiting artist, there's no pressure for me, no quota to meet, no demands to be met. really, though, it's getting to see so much in such a short period of time, and not having to worry about museum guards stopping me from taking pictures. just once a year, too, so easy to surrender to it, like thanksgiving. if i stick to my schedule, should be able to see them all this year too.
http://www.eriksanner.com/2008_for_blog/080329_artfair_schedule.pdf
