Tag: digital

‘Duality of Existence – Post-Fukushima’ at Friedman Benda

Friedman Benda’s summer group exhibition, featuring contemporary Japanese art seen through a post-Fukushima Daiichi lens includes traditional architecture upended and mirrored by Takahiro Iwasaki and a mind-bending interactive installation by Kazuki Umezawa for which looking into an iPad at a digital print produces surprising results. (In Chelsea through August 8th).

Foreground: Takahiro Iwasaki, Reflection Models, wood, monofilament, 2014. Background: Kazuki Umezawa, AR image core involving all, digital print on tarpaulin sheet, 2 iPads, 2013.

Kim Joon at Sundaram Tagore

Using digital processes, Korean artist Kim Joon creates amazing conflations of human bodies, ‘tattooed’ with animal skins, logos and designs that touch on individual identities while creating anonymous abstract sculptures. (At Sundaram Tagore Gallery in Chelsea).

Kim Joon, Somebody 005, digital print, 2014.

Meyer Vaisman at Eleven Rivington

Though gestural strokes dominate new ‘paintings’ by Barcelona-based artist Meyer Vaisman, all have been created with inkjet on industrial plywood with stretcher bars made to look like the back of a canvas. Though the work is abstract, the imagery is based on Vaisman’s signature. (At Eleven Rivington on the Lower East Side through July 3rd).

Meyer Vaisman, Artist’s Signature: llehctiM naoJ, 5773, AFGA UVI ink on popular plywood, 2014.

David Kennedy Cutler, Michael DeLucia, and David Scanavino at Derek Eller Gallery

David Scanavino’s vibrantly colored institutional floor tiles, Michael DeLucia’s tire images, carved out of MDF by a computer-controlled router, and David Kennedy Cutler’s elongated arm, created with pictures of a real hand, bring together images generated in the computer and realized in three dimensions. (At Chelsea’s Derek Eller Gallery through June 28th).

David Kennedy Cutler, Michael DeLucia, David Scanavino, To Be Titled, plywood and high pressure laminate, injet on cotton sateen and aluminum, tree branch, wood, spray paint, permalac, VCT tile, floor wax, MDF, glue, 2014.

Jeff Elrod at Luhring Augustine Gallery

New York artist Jeff Elrod devises his images on a computer, then renders them by hand on canvas, bridging the gap between artist and machine in the digital age. (At Chelsea’s numberswiki.com

Augustine Gallery” target=”_blank”>Luhring Augustine Gallery through April 12th.)

Jeff Elrod, Untitled, UV ink on Fisher canvas, 118 ¼ x 84 inches, 2014.