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Indepth Arts News:
"Ink Jet: Matt Chansky, Claire Corey, Tom
Moody"
2000-09-24 until 2001-01-07
Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art
Ridgefield, CT,
USA
Revolutions often start in curious ways. Throughout the history of
art, change is set in motion by factors such as political or social
upheaval, new philosophical constructs, scientific revolutions, or
the basic human urge towards novelty. For artists Matt Chansky,
Claire Corey, and Tom Moody, however, opportunity presented
itself through the reality of day jobs in today's high-tech office
environment using graphic design and illustration computer
programs, photocopy machines, and digital ink jet printers.
These
artists all trained as painters and made the transition into the
digital realm through experiences in the workplace. Rather than
simply scanning and manipulating images, Chansky, Corey, and
Moody have each struggled in their own way to completely
reinvent painting by using the computer as their primary tool.
Each of these artists has stopped making paintings by traditional
means, which gives rise to the question of whether the works
produced by Chansky, Corey, and Moody really be considered
paintings. The answer might lie in the issues raised by
photography's ongoing impact on painting: in response to the
unparalleled veracity of the photographic image, paintings ceased
to be revered as metaphorical, representational windows onto the
visible world and instead were considered primarily as literal
things, objects with paint on their surfaces. For artists taking
painting to the computer, the most profound results are neither
illusions nor objects, but information-laden surfaces that contain
the mutability and complexity of information itself. The works in
this exhibition are perhaps not paintings, nor are they prints or
drawings. Rather, they are works utilizing the latest variation in
our continually evolving system of mark-making, the ink jet
printer and the computer. This exhibition is curated by Richard
Klein, assistant director.
IMAGE:
Loud.sample.panel
installation
Matt Chansky
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