Art For Televisions
dal 3/12/2002 al 8/1/2003
Segnalato da
3/12/2002
Art For Televisions
Paul Sharpe Contemporary Art, New York
Art For Televisions is an ongoing project of video artist Lee Whittier, whose main interest is in bringing video art into the home. Much of video art today is presented in a specific context, sometimes directly tied to its installation of equipment and environment and other times tied to the kind of spaces that most people do not live in, such as commercial galleries and museums.
New DVD Works By Lee Whittier
New York, NY - Paul Sharpe Contemporary Art (PSCA) announces the opening of Art
For Televisions, featuring video-based works on DVD by New York artist Lee
Whittier. Opening December 4, 6 - 9 PM, thru January 8.
Art For Televisions is an ongoing project of video artist Lee Whittier, whose
main interest is in bringing video art into the home. Much of video art today
is presented in a specific context, sometimes directly tied to its installation
of equipment and environment and other times tied to the kind of spaces that
most people do not live in, such as commercial galleries and museums. Often
these installations are not suitable for display in one's own home. In
particular, the advent of the flat panel screen has turned televisions and
computer monitors from conduits for preprogrammed information, sic TV or movies,
or information, online computer feeds or business applications. Moving beyond
these entertainment and information-based applications, this new equipment can
become electronic canvases of moving paintings to be viewed in the home or in
the office. Due to the streamlined attractiveness and, to a large extent, the
expense of these new technologies, flat screen large format televisions and
monitors are often installed in prominent places in the home or business. When
entertaining guests or enjoying solitude, these vehicles become perfect for
showing video art made for DVDs.
In this exhibit, Lee Whittier has worked with several households to test his
hypothesis that if art existed for televisions, would people watch it; would
they consider it art? In doing so, he has developed unique moving artworks that
reflect the user's habits and aesthetics within Whittier's rubric. The result
is a stunning show of electronic art works made specifically to suit a home
environment. Color rich quests for naturally occurring "special effects" and
perpetual motion; slowly evolving photographs; details of the world given cosmic
consequence, all coalesce in Whittier's work. In the words of the artist, the
art is "made in the present not in the future; made from insatiable desire for
greater intimacy with the world; visceral. Sumptuous. Playful."
Concurrent with Art For Televisions, PSCA will present new paintings and
multiples by Dylan Blue Stone.
Following Art For Televisions, PSCA will present Emerging Painters from New
York, featuring Laura Harrison, Michelle Mackey, Sebastiano Mauri, Mike Peck,
and Tattfoo Tan, opening January 15, 6 - 9 PM.
The gallery is open on Wednesday through Saturday from Noon to 6 PM, and by
appointment.
Paul Sharpe Contemporary Art
86 Walker Street, Floor Six, New York, NY 10013
(Walker is one block below Canal Street, between Broadway and Lafayette)