The phrase
"illusory space" refers to a perception of an area or room that seems real but is actually unreal. It can be a trick created through optical illusions or virtual reality, where the space appears to exist but is just a representation. So,
illusory space is like a fake or imaginary place that tricks our minds into thinking it's real.
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Wound together, the pictures I make float in and out
of illusory space while simultaneously denoting flatness of their plane materiality.
The Flat Side of the Knife combines physical spaces
with illusory spaces that appear only in mirrors, reflecting what the artist refers to as «layers of consciousness,» akin to psychological and hallucinatory spaces in the mind.
The editing process of each work's referent seeks to locate intelligible visual clues of form which serves to
define illusory space, thus simultaneously imparting familiarity and vagueness.
Unlike in his Untitled (Welcome Series) where he uses warm colors and cool whites and greys to transform the familiar contours of a street front store into a
deceptively illusory space.
«I think I am a painter who is a sculptor... For me the two things have somehow come together, so that I am making physical things that are all about somewhere else,
about illusory space.»
Inspired by Louis Kahn's uncamouflaged use of cement, Ferguson uses sculptural materials, including metal, pigmented plaster and ink on MDF panels, as a means of
creating illusory space and preserving a series of incidents and compositional actions.
Created at the height of postmodern theory, Kasten's Architectural Sites submits iconic buildings to distorting angles and colored lights, thus transforming already vertiginous structures into
truly illusory spaces.
Colour and space were to take precedence in Hoyland's work; he rejected the modernist insistence on the flat reality of the picture plane and used colour to create a sense of
virtual illusory space.
Our ability to recognize, relate to, and «believe»
legible illusory spaces and their human occupants remains a fundamental art experience.
A black coloured top - layer spray checks everything back into a fictive
uncertain illusory space which, allied with new nacreous and interference pigments, has the added quality of opulence.
Shadows and lighting effects occasionally suggest
shallow illusory spaces, while an idiosyncratic colour palette helps to assert mood while also functioning as an integral structural component.
As the press release states, the work seeks to «invite the beholder to enter into a corporeal relationship with [the paintings], to push off from them, to plunge into them, and so to explore the often enigmatic -
seeming illusory space that painterly means have created.»
In this work, the artist
manipulates illusory space by subverting the implied depth of the pictorial image while complimenting its fullness.
In coupling real
with illusory space, the work evokes the uncanny sense of inhabiting two places at once, without being fully present in either.
The group formed to explore their mutual interest in literal and
illusory space, music and social concerns.
These seemingly frozen drips conjure
an illusory space where landscape and architecture meld and objects dematerialize and generate simultaneously.
Interweaving the physical and the psychological, pictorial and
illusory spaces are built in which narratives evolve from one medium to the next.
In late 1967, this experimentation yielded to an increasingly graphic, complex, and
illusory space.
Flatness gives way to
illusory space, background motifs jump in scale as they move centrestage.
With a sustained interest in geographic and atmospheric phenomena, her practice seeks to examine the changing possibilities and conditions of perception and light, tracing
the illusory spaces that can both imitate and invert the natural world.
Helen Calder, Yellow Skin (125 fl.oz), 2009 Acrylic, enamel & stainless steel, 770 x 1400 mm September 2 - 26, 2009 In Helen Calder's most recent works, she has been partially or completely removing the traditional planar support and exploiting the plastic potential of the paint medium and the real space, rather than
illusory space, paint and colour can occupy.
Working in diverse materials and approaches, the group formed in 1962 to explore their mutual interest in literal and
illusory space, music and social concerns.
The way light rakes across the monochrome folds of their shallow relief implies
an illusory space, but also reads like an opaque plaster cast of a window.
Incorporating a sense of wonder and humor, concepts surrounding animation and cartooning are expanded into an exhibition that enacts a similar sort of hysteria around flatness and depth in relation to technologies, real and
illusory spaces — physical, virtual, internal, and external.
«The Flat Side of the Knife» combines physical spaces with
illusory spaces that appear only in mirrors, akin to psychological and hallucinatory spaces in the mind.
«Tom Hatch used plexiglass constructions and painted glass combined with painting directly onto the windowpane to create an ambiguous relationship between real and
illusory space.
He develops his theory of Spatialism, which promotes the abolition of
the illusory space of painting and its replacement by real...
In fact, the predetermined confines push the boundaries in every direction and the corners become the focal point that expand the real and
illusory space.
Employing both digital and manual processes in the different stages of his work, Elrod's practice explores the currency of twentieth century abstract expressionism in the context of a computer dominated, digital culture characterised by our engagement with the screen and
its illusory space.
Hardy's constructed environments immerse the viewer in functional yet
illusory spaces.