Tag: digital art

Leslie Thornton at Winkleman Gallery

‘You get to have your cake and eat it, too,’ explains experimental film and video artist Leslie Thornton in respect to her three-channel video, ‘Luna.’  Digital effects morph her subject, Coney Island’s historic Parachute Jump, into vibrant, kaleidoscopic forms that evoke different 20th century time periods, prompting us to question what it is that conjures the mood of a particular era.  (At Chelsea’s Winkleman Gallery through June 22nd).  

Leslie Thornton, Luna, three-channel HD video, 12 minutes, 2013.

Benjamin Edwards at Kravets Wehby Gallery

Does greater technology result in greater progress?  Machines and giant-sized virtual humans tower over futuristic cities in Washington D.C.-based painter Benjamin Edwards’ provocative new series ‘System,’ ominously answering in the negative and suggesting that chaos will overtake us. (At Kravets/Wehby Gallery through May 11th).  

Benjamin Edwards, Toy, acrylic on canvas, 2012.

Guy Ben-Ari at Scaramouche Gallery

Israel-born, New York based artist Guy Ben-Ari makes his New York exhibition debut with a show that speaks to our access and remove from contemporary events.  Here, hands hold a tablet showing an act of self-immolation caught on camera and witnessed by mostly passive spectators which include the tablet owner and finally, us. (At Scaramouche Gallery through April 28th)

Guy Ben-Ari, An Act of Protest Viewed Through a Tablet Device, oil on panel, 2013.

Ashley Bickerton at Lehmann Maupin

This gruesome, one-eyed, blue cigarette bedecked creature with perfect teeth could be the patron deity of Bali-based Ashley Bickerton’s portraits of crazed hedonists.  At over seven feet high, the sheer profusion of color and ornament – from her bottle cap necklace to paint-smeared coral – is impressive.  (At Lehmann Maupin’s Lower East Side location through April 20th)  

Ashley Bickerton, White Head I, acrylic, digital print and plastic laminate on wood, 2012.

Michael Riedel at David Zwirner Gallery

In past work, German artist Michael Riedel has drawn his materials from texts on the web written about his own work, which he turned into exhibition wallpaper.  For his current show at David Zwirner Gallery, he puts those images into PowerPoint and causes a ‘freezing’ between slides to create a new merger of information.  (At David Zwirner Gallery’s 533 West 19th Street location through March 23rd).  

Michael Riedel at David Zwirner Gallery, installation view, Feb 2013.