Ken Kelly, USA - 1994 acrylic
Untitled (Bow's)
The piece pictured above represents a strong usage of positive and negative space. The wavelike tentacles that traverse the painting offer intrigue in both the white (positive) and black (negative) shapes. Additionally the piece utilizes symmetry and rhythm to give the viewer a sense of the organic nature of the piece.
The Henry Art Gallery main exhibit was a large, interactive piece created in harmony with three artists: John Sutton, Ben Beres and Zac Culler. The piece created in 2010 is a collage of 154 paintings directly selected by these three artists from the Henry collection. The piece is also comprised of a aluminum track supporting a large digital camera and LED lights which broadcast a video signal to a console in the next room.
I believe the main concept the piece was trying to touch on was the ever increasing encroachment of technology into the traditional arts. Most famous paintings now-a-days can be viewed online but when viewed in this fashion lose a significant amount of the substance. The act of viewing a painting in real life is something that cant be recreated, even with the best technology money can buy. By using a remotely operated digital camera I believe Sutton,Beres,Culler were trying to play on this idea that artistic viewing is now largely mediated by technology.
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