August Highland
dal 1/6/2005 al 28/6/2005
Segnalato da
1/6/2005
August Highland
Absolute Art Gallery, San Marino, CA
Genetic Sequences. The show includes new canvases exploring real and imaginary passageways of genetic sequences. The artist does this with a unique digital method by which he composes instructions much like an architect designing a blueprint or a composer writing a musical score.
Genetic Sequences
Absolute Art Gallery is proud to present the solo exhibition, 'Genetic
Sequences' by the important, contemporary artist, August Highland.
August Highland is known for creating text-paintings. The source material
for his current body of work is the Human Genome Project. Highland is
incorporating into his art the gene expression of what some are calling the
"Biotech Century."
The exhibition includes new canvases exploring real and imaginary
passageways of genetic sequences. Highland has developed a technique of
producing visual work that involves "writing" his pieces rather than
"painting" them. He does this with a unique digital method by which he
composes instructions much like an architect designing a blueprint, a
screenwriter writing a script, or a composer writing a musical score.
Highland's new body of work beautifully integrates art with biotechnology
and genetic research by using human genetic sequences as the compositional
element. Inspired by the Human Genome Project, each artwork contains DNA
information from one gene built up layer upon layer on canvas.
"August Highland conflates the typographic, photographic, and purely
graphic, jumping off the computer screen and into the conceptual space
between eye and mind, page and wall." -- Peter Frank, Art Critic for the
Angeleno and LA Weekly, Senior Curator of the Riverside Art Museum.
"August Highland is exploring a new language of complex digital images, and
has evolved a vocabulary that is both visually seductive and highly
original." --Stephen Nowlin, Director, Williamson Gallery, Art Center
College of Design.
"In what August Highland terms 'Alphanumeric Sequencing,' art makes the
conversion from image/text into text/image when his ingenious software
renders a very painterly 'hash' of words, numbers and letters onto canvas.
The piling of text upon text is a visual representation of discursive "white
noise" where all meanings are equally visible and equally blurred. The
colorful and delicate work is as beautiful as it is conceptually cogent."
--Rex Bruce, Director, LACDA
The exhibition will also donate two works by the artist and the gallery to
the Levitt Pavilion live-auction. The exhibition opens June 2nd and runs
through 28th and is open to the public.
Opening Reception: Saturday, June 4, 6-9pm
Absolute Art Gallery
2326 Huntington Drive - San Marino, CA
Gallery Hours: Tuesday to Saturday, 11am-6pm, and by appointment