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Indepth Arts News:
"corinne_whitaker.uncom"
2000-08-09 until 2000-09-23
San Bernardino County Museum, Fisk Gallery
Redlands, CA,
USA United States of America
Computer-generated art and its three dimensional expression are the
subjects of a new exhibit featuring the work of Corinne Whitaker at the
San Bernardino County Museum in Redlands, California. Opening
August 9, 2000, corinne_whitaker.uncom explores a completely new
visual language, inserting human consciousness into the cyberworld
through sensuous, flowing, pulsating and complex constellations of
shape, color, value, rhythm and line. The exhibit, curated by Marilyn
Prescott, runs through September 23 in the Museum’s Fisk Gallery and
is free with Museum admission.
Corinne Whitaker, photographer, artist, writer and lecturer, has been
using desktop computers since 1981. A preeminent digital painter, she
has exhibited in more than 40 solo and 175 group exhibitions
worldwide, including Germany, Thailand, England, Japan, China, and
India. Her work has been commissioned by NASA for their permanent
collection at the Kennedy Space Center and her web site,
www.giraffe.com, has been recognized as Best in CyberArt and by
the recent Golden Web Award from the International Association of
Web Masters and Designers.
Whitaker, a resident of Carmel, California, works in three main areas.
Her digital paintings are constructed with software, an electrostatic
tablet and a mouse and then professionally printed. She has also
embarked upon digital sculpture, whereby molds are made from 3-D
renderings on her computer and then cast in bronze, aluminum or
stainless steel. And her work is available on the computer screen at her
web site. That’s really where digital art should be viewed, Whitaker
points out. The original ‘paintings’ are fluid, in constant motion on the
screen. A print can only capture one split-second facet of that work.
Marilyn Prescott, the exhibit’s curator, is an artist, writer and curator
living and working in Orange County. Long known as an outspoken
proponent of accessible art programming, she has been active in
curating shows geared toward educating a general public in what to look
for in contemporary art. Streamlined art history lessons, easily
understood wall text, and a taste for beautifully-executed two and three
dimensional artwork are hallmarks of her exhibits.
Corinne Whitaker is exploring a completely new visual language, says
Prescott, and in doing so she is inserting human consciousness into the
cyberworld even as consciousness is in the process of being changed by
its cohabitation with the phosphorescent screen. Her art embodies the
paradox that she explores in her writings: how do we preserve human
values in a nonlinear world peopled by the silicon species we are
creatingNULL
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