Roy LaGrone
dal 1/11/2006 al 13/1/2007
Segnalato da
1/11/2006
Roy LaGrone
Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, San Antonio
Beta Projections and Artifacts from Earth
Beta Projections and Artifacts from Earth
Blue Star Contemporary Art Center is pleased to present Beta Projections and
Artifacts from Earth, a solo exhibition by media artist Roy LaGrone. Through the use
of computer-generated prints, animation and video, he blends discarded artifacts and
the technological to explore issues of 21st century displacement and renewal.
Roy LaGrone’s Beta Projection Series, premiering in Blue Star’s Project Space,
is a “suite of transmutated prints that derive from found artifacts (small bits of
refuse on the streets of San Antonio); and function as conduits for healing".
LaGrone’s experimental new body of work is rich in social meaning and
compositional inventiveness, representing a stylistic breakthrough that he continues
to refine again and again and again.
“The exhibition and the work takes you to a parallel universe. You look at the
past, the present, and the future simultaneously," said Bernice B.
Appelin-Williams, curator of the Beta Projections and Artifacts from Earth
exhibition at Blue Star.
Parallel universe or alternate reality in science fiction and fantasy is a term
meaning: self-contained, separate reality ‘coexisting’ with our own. This
separate reality can significantly range in size from a geographic region to an
entire new universe. Roy LaGrone’s work personifies the term alternate reality.
LaGrone constructs intricate illusions of three-dimensional space, heightened with
many layers of transmutated elements and references. His computer-generated forms
(photomontage and video) represent the art of “making do", the skill of seeing
possibilities and the aesthetic of transforming trash to treasure.
Roy LaGrone, a native of Tupelo, Mississippi, is a media artist based in Italy
working with large-scale photomontage, video projection and painting. LaGrone
received a B.F.A. from the Atlanta College of Art and his M.F.A. in computer art
from the Savannah College of Art and Design. LaGrone’s work has been shown at
numerous venues including the Smithsonian Institution; SIGGRAPH; the Contemporary
Art Center, New Orleans; Havana, Cuba; and the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential
Library and Museum, Austin.
Blue Star Contemporary Art Center is a non-profit, non-collecting contemporary art
center in San Antonio, Texas that advances the growth and understanding of
contemporary art, artists and the curatorial process. Through exhibitions and a
variety of programs, Blue Star is an active participant in the development of
regional, national and international contemporary art and provides a lively forum
for the visual arts dialogue.
For more information contact Zinnia Dunis Salcedo:
zinnia@bluestarart.org or Andrew Anguiano: Andrew@bluestarart.org
Image: Talisman 161x180
Opening Reception: Thursday November 2, 2006
Blue Star Contemporary Art Center
116 Blue Star - San Antonio
Gallery Hours: Wednesday - Saturday, Noon - 6pm