Surfing Along the Shores of an Emergent Synthetic Sea explores the various approaches to contemporary abstraction in bridging analog and digital styles of painting that are distinctively found in tropes of science fiction and sequential art, using simulated fractal design vis-à-vis modernist plane fragmentation, computer filtered imagery and color gradients and saturation, hyperbolic gestural marks signifying nomadic content and networked spread, in order to present the combined expression of cool new media aesthetics with the warm aura of traditional media.

Works in the exhibit establish the persistence of painting, a traditional slow medium of production, in light of today’s culture of speed and information. The exhibit also provides unique visual solutions to place and identity, a formal balance of intuition and formula in finding subjectivity, of beauty and ecstasy along the fringe of the technological sublime.

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