Cranbrook Art Museum - Exhibitions - Post Digital Painting



"Joe Houston's exhibit is a "must" for everyone, who cares about painting." - Joy Hakanson Colby/The Detroit News
*Post-Digital Painting* December 14-March 23, 2003 CRANBROOK ART MUSEUM This group exhibition presents 12 contemporary international artists whose work reflects the dynamic visual perspective of the computer age. Using densely layered patterns, morphed imagery and cybernetic spatial distortion, an emerging generation of painters are adding renewed vigor to the traditional medium of painting today. Hailing from the United States, England and Germany, the artists included reflect the global impact of new technologies on vision and representation. Post-Digital Painting is curated by Cranbrook Art Museum's Curator of Exhibitions Joe Houston. This exhibition is made possible by the generous support of Burt Aaron, the Maxine and Stuart Frankel Foundation. David Klein and Kate Ostrove, and Mr. and Mrs. Joseph A. Nathan. An illustrated, color catalog will be available in the Museum Store.	........
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	ARTISTS >>
	Scott Anderson Phllip Argent Alex Brown Benjamin Edwards Chris Finley Beverly Fishman Carl Fudge Dan Hays Yeardley Leonard Randy Wray Amy Yoes Peter Zimmermann
POST DIGITAL PAINTING IN THE NEWS: WHAT THE CRITICS ARE SAYING... >>
DETROIT NEWS STORY 1.30.03 by Joy Colby >>
'Post-Digital Painting' pumps new technology into an aging art form By Joy Hakanson Colby / The Detroit News "Houston selected artists with different agendas and different techniques, making for a varied collection that rivets your attention."
		Chris Finley calls his oil and acrylic painting "Couplinkmoundtwir."
METROTIMES COVER STORY 1.29.03 by George Tysh >>
Art 1010101010101010 Cranbrook’s "Post-Digital Painting" boots up wild new worlds. - by George Tysh Virtual tools are changing the way art is conceived.
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Painting has not lost its sense of urgency and appeal in light of the sophisticated multimedia technology available today. Post Digital Painting, an exhibition at Cranbrook Art Museum on view December 14 -March 23, 2003, explores how our immersion in the digital age extends to artists working into the age-old medium of painting . This group exhibition presents twelve contemporary international painters whose work reflects a dynamic visual perspective of the computer age and demonstrates how the media-environment is impacting not only visual culture, but the nature of vision. As information and communication becomes more complicated, so too are the traditional boundaries between art and media becoming less clear. Not unlike photography in the 19^th century, and film and video in the 20th century, computer technology is-- without any doubt–transforming our visual culture in the 21^st century. What are the effects of this transformation on painting? In this exhibition, the artists provide various perspectives of our encoded media age that appear more evocative than any of the electronically derived images with which we have become so familiar. Using densely layered patterns, morphed imagery and cybernetic spatial distortion, an emerging generation of artists are adding renewed vigor to the traditional medium of painting. Hailing from the United States, England and Germany, the painters included in Post Digital Painting reflect the global impact of new technologies on vision and representation. Participating artists include Scott Anderson, Phillip Argent, Alex Brown, Benjamin Edwards, Chris Finley, Beverly Fishman, Carl Fudge, Dan Hays, Yeardley Leonard, Randy Wray, Amy Yoes and Peter Zimmerman. This exhibition is organized by Cranbrook Academy of Art and curated by the Curator of Exhibitions, Joe Houston. An illustrated, full-color catalog will be available in The Store at Cranbrook Art Museum. Cranbrook Art Museum is a non-profit contemporary art museum, and an integral part of Cranbrook Academy of Art, a community of artists-in-residence and graduate-level students of art, design and architecture. Cranbrook Academy of Art and Art Museum are a part of Cranbrook Educational Community, which also includes Cranbrook’s Institute of Science, Schools and other affiliated cultural and educational programs. Cranbrook Art Museum is accredited by the American Association of Museums.
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SATURDAY, MARCH 8, 2-4 PM PANEL DISCUSSION: CYBERVISION---A DIALOGUE ON THE POST-DIGITAL PERSPECTIVE Panel discussion will explore the ways in which our interaction with the world has changed in the current electronically connected and hyper-mediated environment. Randy Wray, a painter whose work is included in Post Digital Painting; Edward Bakst, Chair of the Animation and Digital Media Department at the College for Creative Studies; Dan Sicko, techno music critic and author; and Christopher McNamara, Lecturer, Film and Video Studies, University of Michigan/Ann Arbor will comprise the panel which will be moderated by Joe Houston, Curator of Exhibitions at Cranbrook Art Museum. Following the panel discussion Christopher McNamara and Edward Bakst will show their recent video works. Just thinking of you (DVD - 9 minutes, 2001) by Christopher McNamara and Dermot Wilson (machyderm), is a sonically treated visual travelogue that explores the hinterlands and non-places of a city at night and Wassailing (DV - 3.5 minutes), an element from a large museum installation that explores the collective madness during the "festive season" of Christmas. This is an assemblage of found 8mm home movies combined with a table-top train set of trains arriving and departing in the dead of night. Clock and other recent projects by Edward Bakst (5 minutes) were produced for the SCI-FI Channel and presented at the SIGGRAPH Electronic Theatre. Clock won 1st prizes at Imagina in Monaco, NY Festival and the ASIFA-East Festival in NYC.
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Cranbrook Art Museum is supported, in part, its Members, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, the Museum Committee and the fund-raising activities of the Serious Moonlight Steering Committee and the Women's Committee of Cranbrook Academy of Art and Art Museum. Cranbrook Art Museum is open Tuesday through Sunday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. with extended hours until 9 p.m. each Friday. Admission is $6 for adults, Full-Time Students with ID and Teens 13 and over: $4. Senior Citizens (65+): $4. Children 12 and under and Museum Members: Free! For more information, please call 1.877.GO.CRANBrook. (1.877.462.7262)

"Joe Houston's exhibit is a "must" for everyone, who cares about painting." - Joy Hakanson Colby/The Detroit News