David Clarkson,
Afterimage Painting (Project Sign), 1997, lightbulbs and enamel paint on wood, 60 × 48 × 22 inches.
Not exact matches
Acrylic
paint is transformed to conjure up sunsets, boxes of jewelry, coral reefs and other indelible effects of light and atmosphere such as fog, shimmery
afterimage and splashy crescendos.
The
paintings explore the possibilities and properties of vivid colour, how it is optically perceived, and the effects of the
afterimage created by red - green vision in particular.
In fact, the more you look at those pesky residual traces of red, blue and green, which at first glance look almost like Hippenstiel wiped them from his shoes, the more they register as an
afterimage of the skull in the first
painting.
Actually, the spectral realities glimpsed in the 1962 — 64 silk - screen
paintings feel less like images than
afterimages — traces left in the eye or mind when the original source is no longer there.
In such works, the retinal
afterimage excited by colored lightbulbs incorporated into the glossy surface is reproduced by Clarkson as
painted dot patterns in high - key colors.
The result is
paintings whose vibrating color space, where image and
afterimage interact, recall the utopian optical constructivism of painters like Wojciech Fangor, as well as the meticulously Photoshopped, if blithely neutered, color field photography of younger artists like Cory Arcangel.
Afterimage is a large - scale interactive light /
painting installation; an ephemeral and mysterious spectacle of appearing and moving shadows, structures, silhouettes and hues expressing thoughts surrounding spirituality and the supernatural.
Afterimage, finished on June 5, 2017, is a 96 x 106 inch (243.8 x 134.6 cm)
painting on two panels.
At Charlie James Gallery in Chinatown, each of Goldberg's
paintings has the presence of an
afterimage.
Rectangles of light gray are
painted on the wall where intervening works would hang, creating room for the savoring of
afterimages.
German street artist (check out the Widewalls list of 10 German street and urban artists) 1010 (take a look at the 1010 Print Release: Abyss 49) has become well known for his eye catching «portal» designs that play on the eye and the mind, creating optical illusions on a grand scale (read the Bridget Riley: The Stripe
Paintings article about one of the masters of creating optical art, Bridget Riley or check the work of Levalet in this Levalet: Bagages article that uses optical illusions in a different way) that turn the sides of flat buildings into an abyss that one could simply walk into as the layers of colour and carefully constructed shadows vanish into a dark centre that hypnotically draw you in (explore the mind blowing optical illusions of Julie Oppermann in this The Intense
Afterimage article).