artcodes

This is the web archive of Emily Chang.

Please support Web standards. Have a look at this page on the Web Standards Project site if you're wondering why this page is text.

Jeremy Blake at SFMOMA

I’ve liked the ideas of Jeremy Blake’s work for some time and his exploration of “time-based paintings” and digital video DVD layered animations, having felt something similar in my own experiments and visual thinking.  So I was excited to see his first work in person at SFMOMA here.

The show took up much of one floor and was divided into separate rooms.  I was drawn to the visual effects and thought his technique was very specific and stylized, but I didn’t connect right away to the content or the pacing.  I’ll have to go back and try it again.

Jeremy Blake: Winchester
Saturday, February 19, 2005 - Monday, October 10, 2005
SFMOMA Exhibitions Overview: Jeremy Blake

Heiress Sarah Winchester and her Winchester Mystery House — the bizarre gothic mansion she built to defend herself from the ghosts of those killed by the rifles that made her family famous — are the inspiration for Jeremy Blake’s suite of digital animations, the Winchester trilogy. Employing hand-painted imagery, film footage, vector graphics, and sound in a process the artist calls “time-based painting,” Blake’s visually opulent works offer an empathetic experience of Winchester’s madness. Representational images morph into kinetic inkblots and back again. Traditional modes of storytelling are questioned, as are the relationships between reality and simulation. Shown together for the first time, Winchester (2002), 1906 (2003), and Century 21 (2004) are presented as a triptych in three adjacent projections.

Posted by emily chang on 03.11.05 at 12:49 AM
Filed under Art/Pop Culture• Permalink • Tell a friend

Name:

Email (required):

Location:

URL:

Remember my personal information

Notify me of follow-up comments?

To verify that you're human and not a spam bot, enter the word in the field below to submit your comment (required).


Next entry: Well-behaved women seldom make history

Previous entry: Behold, it's Mavericks

<< artcodes home