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Three artists explore the use of scientific imaging techniques in producing
photography, painting and video.
Opening Reception Saturday November 12, 7-9 pm
Northside Second Saturday features special events and exhibitions at:
Comet,
Nvision, Thundersky, Chicken Lays an Egg, Helltown Workshop,
Sidewinder,
Cryptogram, Mayday, Northside Surplus, Fabricate, Prairie, CANCO, Take
the Cake, Sweat Peace Bakery, Painted Fish, 3 Legged Dog, Shop Therapy,
Northside Tavern (5-9 happy hour), Ruttle and Neltner Florist
Prairie
is pleased to present work by Cincinnati artist Kimberly Burleigh,
San Francisco artist Caren Alpert and Arizona artist David Tinapple.
Kimberly Burleigh employs a unique blend of methods from both fields of
art and science in producing her oil paintings and watercolors. She
explores her interest in the behavior of light across
the surface of and through liquids by creating computer simulated models
of liquid surfaces lit by artificial light sources. She then transfers
these "still lives" onto canvas using the traditional methods and tools
of oil painting. Her final works are, in
one sense, straight recordings of computer generated shapes, and in
another, highly stylized abstractions of the real world rendered with
limited color palettes which evoke the experiments of mid-20th century
color field painters.
San
Francisco artist Caren Alpert produces microscopic images of food in
addition
to her work as a commercial photographer. In producing images of food
for the advertising industry, Alpert recognized an increasing disparity
between the unnatural eating behaviors promoted through advertisements
and a more balanced relationship between people
and their food supply based on a comprehensive understanding of the
origin and nature of food. For her, placing a "camera" close enough to
edible objects to see their microscopic structures became a way to
better understand food. The natural fibers and visual
patterns present in the structure of certain vegetables shown in
Alpert's images are not only beautiful, but transform objects of
consumption into objects which invite admiration and contemplation. In a
similar fashion, her images of cake sprinkles and other
manufactured foods provide reason to reconsider the casual consumption
of substances whose appearance evokes food science and genetic
engineering laboratories.
David
Tinapple sheds light on how human perception has been dramatically
altered
by the type and quantity of media which pervades our lives. Part
engineer, he employs manipulated image capturing devices to produce
video and still images which are visually stunning and which also
question our reliance on imagery as a substitute for observation
and experience of the real world. His "slit scan" images, for example,
were produced by turning his car into a giant scanner. Equipped with
this oversized imaging device, Tinapple drove his car down typical
house-lined streets, capturing every detail of these
bucolic scenes over the course of several minutes per image. On their
own, these pictures appear to be simple panoramic photographs capturing a
single moment in time. When the nature of their origin is understood,
however, the idea of the photograph as a representation
of the real world feels like a grand deception. Tinapple's perfectly
still images showing people interacting with each other and the
environment are actually the product of a narrative fabricated by his
inventive imaging techniques.
Hope to see you there! (Text copied from Prairie press release.)
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