FOR IMMEDIATE
RELEASE:
"From Line to
Pixel"
Bill Claps & Richard
Brown
"Into the Void", Mixed media on canvas, 30" x
40"
Bill
Claps
Salomon Arts
Gallery
83 Leonard Street 4th Fl
New York, NY
10013
212-966-1997
www.salomonarts.com
Salomonarts@earthlink.net
On view: March 25th -
April 22nd
Reception for the
artists: March 25, from 6-9
PM
Salomon Arts Gallery is
pleased to announce "From Line to Pixel", an exhibition featuring drawings and paintings from artists Bill Claps & Richard
Brown.
In 1925 Paul Klee
said "A line is a dot that went for a walk." With today's digital technology,
lines can become dots, and then digitally manipulated back into lines again.
This opens up infinite artistic possibilities, but in the process raises
questions of where the work of the hand ends and the work of the computer
begins. This exhibition contrasts the differences between traditional and
digital painting by exploring the processes of two
emerging artists. Both use drawings of the human form as the point of departure
for their works, but utilize divergent approaches in the use of the line to
achieve their final
vision.
Claps' sensuous
figurative work combines elements of both drawing and painting, and he draws
directly into the canvas using oil pastel, graphite, charcoal, and other
materials. "My work explores the intersection of representation and abstraction,
and the line is essential, as its path through the work tells the story and
evokes the mood. As my works evolve they take on a certain life of their own, at
which point I facilitate the process and act as an arbitrator, deciding which
structural elements deserve more or less
prominence".
In contrast,
Brown's vibrant graphic works evolve from a process that begins with computer
renderings of his hand drawn figures, which he scans and re-draws digitally,
adding colors and continually modifying via a computerized airbrush technique.
"My process has been developed over years of trial and error until I've come up
with a distinctive signature
style".
This exhibition
seeks to re-examine the age-old question of "What is Art?" by contrasting these
artist's divergent styles and methods, one traditional and one implementing
digital techniques. What is the effect on artistic purity and authenticity in
our era when technology is often utilized in new and changing ways?