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Artist Exhibitions:
----------2006 Exhibitions
Solo: "Computage," at
Perspective Gallery
VA Tech, Blacksburg , Virginia
November 1 to December 6, 2006
Reception: Sunday November 5,
2006, 3 to 5 pmSolo: City
Gallery, Galax, VA; May 5-June
3, 2006
Juried: 2007 League of Roanoke
Artists Showcase
Jefferson Center Gallery,
Roanoke VA, October 1st to...
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Artist Galleries:
Miller off Main Street
Gallery, 211 Wilson Avenue,
Blacksburg VA, 24060
Prop: Robert Miller
Phone: (540) 552-6969
E Mail: ram1@usit.net
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Artist Reviews:
BOOKS & CD-Rom's:
• "3 Irons 2" is featured in
"Digital Collage and Painting"
by Susan Ruddick Bloom, ISBN:
0240807057, Focal Press,
Paperback, Publication Date:
2006
• "Technicolor Daydream" is
one of a handfull of examples
of digital art in Spotlight on
Art, books and CD-ROMs, grade
8, by Dr. ...
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Collections:
Permanent Collections:
Harmony Hall, Ocho Rios,
Jamaica
Miller off Main Gallery,
Blacksburg, VA
Rescue Mission Gallery,
Roanoke, Virginia
Private Collections: Patrons
list is available on request.
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Artist Statement for Leslye Bloom
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Leslye Bloom has always been special. She was one of the very few people allowed to earn Bachelors, Masters, and PhD degrees in Penn State?s prestigious Art Education program. In addition to her traditional art studies she branched out into computers in 1967, becoming the resident graphic artist in Penn State?s Computer Assisted Instruction Lab, working on a timeshared IBM 1100 with all of 16 kilobytes of memory. She thought she had died and gone to heaven when she got an Apple II in 1981 with 64 kilobytes all her own. That was when, as head of Virginia Tech?s Art Education program, she began to integrate traditional and computer art.
As a pioneer in the field, she has had to invent many things, including the name for what she does. “Computage” combines the digital medium with traditional media. That synergy results in works that transcend the pure digital and the traditional. The art world can be surprisingly conservative, but over the past decade Leslye?s work has become accepted into the mainstream, winning prizes in competition with the best of current traditional artists.
Leslye jokes that she has a “Make Art” button on her computer. In more serious moments, she says “Computers are easy. Art is hard.” She may start with a computer image, often from a digital camera, but that is only the start. She?ll “whack” the image in her computer, print it out, whack it some more with encaustic, watercolor, graphite, whatever to get the effect she wants. If she?s still unsatisfied, she will photograph what she?s done, copy that into her computer, and start the process anew.
This show presents examples of her recent work in three general areas: photography based works like Daybreak, works based on life drawing like Weight of the World. and — always with Leslye — pure whimsey like Ducka Lisa's Finger Nails and The Dog Ate It. Even her serious works have a whimsical touch. Each contains one impossibility. Can you find them all? Any of them?
Works in art texts:
•3 Irons 2 is featured in "Digital Collage and Painting" by Susan Ruddick Bloom
ISBN: 0240807057, Focal Press, Paperback, Publication Date: 2006.
•Spring Thaw is one of 15 works featured (with 1 page statement) in Theresa Airey's "Digital Photo Art," Sterling Books, ISBN: 1579905803.
•Technicolor Daydream is one of just a handfull of examples of digital art in Spotlight on Art, books and CD-ROMs, grade 8, by Dr. Rebecca Brooks, ©2005, Scott Foresman, Student Edition: ISBN: 0328080381
Brushes don't make paintings and computers don't make art - Computers are easy. - Art is hard. Computers, acrylics, encaustics and collage fuse in my work. A reviewer has called it "mixed media on steroids. It is invigorating, flexible and lively!" My chief goal over the years has been to push the "new" computer medium to its expressive limit, while retaining the best of traditional studio media.
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