Together, they reveal an innovative artist whose style is distinguished by partial images, unexpected juxtapositions, harmonious collisions, and a dynamic modernist aesthetic that continues to inspire and
challenge viewers today.
Not exact matches
No comic filmmaker in America
today works so hard to stay on the knife's edge between humor and pathos or is so eager to
challenge his
viewers emotionally.
From Claudia Hart's critique of digital technology and the misogyny of gaming and special effects media to Carla Gannis's performance video where the artist competes with her virtual self; from Cynthia Lin's monumental drawings detailing minuscule portions of skin to Laura Splan's mixture of scientific and domestic in molecular garments and Joyce Yu - Jean Lee's
challenge of conventional viewing perspectives; from Christopher Baker's examination on participative media to Victoria Vesna's collaborative project on social networking, identity ownership and the idea of a «virtual body» — the show guides the
viewer through an array of captivating approaches that
challenge not only current media ideologies but also conceptual paradigms underlying
today's digital art, the question of disembodiment and post-humanism in particular.
These iconic black and white works - paintings, gouaches and prints -
challenge the
viewer's sensations and form the foundation of Riley's continued explorations of shape, movement and perception over the following four decades and continued
today.
Through an unswerving
challenge to the meaning of painting in the world
today she gives a voice back to painting: a voice that remains on the pulse, and engages with the
viewer in a direct, natural and anything but elitist manner.