POST ANALOG STUDIO

Lazzarini, chain-link fence (torn) (view 2), 2012, steel, pigment, 134 x 276 x 75 in. 340.36 x 701.04 x 190.5 cm 1500

Above: Robert Lazzarini, chain-link fence (torn), 2012, steel and pigment, 134 x 276 x 75 inches, 340 x 701 x 191 cm

POST ANALOG STUDIO

April 20th – May 19th, 2019

OPENING: Saturday, April 20th, 6-9pm

Adam Parker Smith, Alan Resnick, Anne Vieux, Ara Peterson, Ben Jones, Brian Bress, Caitlin Cherry, Cathrin Hoffmann, Clinton King, Emma Stern, Jeff Elrod, Jonathan Chapline, Josh Reames, Kara Joslyn, Maja Djordjevic, Matt Hansel, Michael Dotson, Morgan Blair, Otto Ford, Pedro Pedro, Rafaël Rozendaal, Rannva Kunoy, Robert Lazzarini, Robin F. Williams, Sven Loven, Takeshi Murata

The Hole is proud to announce the third installment of our ongoing curatorial project examining digital media’s impact on art making with Post Analog Studio. This show widens the previous focus on digitally-influenced painting to look more closely at digital video and sculpture with specific interest in CAD rendering and 3D modeling. From the massive wave-distorted fence sculpture by Robert Lazzarini to computer modeled porn-adjacent oil paintings by Emma Stern, this group includes twenty-six artists from established to emerging, pixels to paint to 3D printing.

The gallery continues the CYC studio curved walls from our past exhibition by Ry David Bradley to fill the entire space, installing this show in a seamless white room mimicking the studios where digital video and digital photography thrive. Designed to remove the wall seams and shadows to more easily edit the photos or videos in the computer, CYC studios’ creepy seamlessness can be disorienting. The gallery recedes and the artworks float here in the non-space of the cyclorama, mimicking the digital space in which most of these artworks were conceived.
Takeshi Murata’s work, above, is a complete computer fabrication, not an alteration or adjustment of reality but a fully invented image where every detail springs into digital life from nothingness. In a program made by humans, how is the structure of the program part of the art that shapes the reality? Emma Stern creates sexy images of avatars in a 3D program whose structure shows an inherent bias in how the tools and settings tend towards making pornographic women, highlighting how the programming in 3D tools contain the flaws and limitations of the humans who program them. Alan Resnick includes a 3D animation Johnny Bubble, whose playfully rudimentary modeling belies dark themes of isolation and death. We shape programs that shape reality that shapes programs, and on and on it goes.

The paintings in this third post-analog show are mostly abstraction: Anne Vieux and Rannva Kunoy make abstract paintings suggestive of the screen, whether the smeared marks of fingers swiping a phone surface or the refracted light off an optical scanner. Otto Ford includes a piece focused on how an analog brush gets translated into the various brush settings of Photoshop, Jeff Elrod includes a piece that completely blurs out the brush tool, while Clinton King uses an actual foam brush to make an insane Illustrator-style thicket of gradients. Ara Peterson’s immersive wall relief uses CNC-routed slats to carve out beautifully intersecting sine curves of color, and Rafaël Rozendaal weaves a proliferation of colored browser windows from programs and websites he codes.

I want to say a wee bit about each of the amazing artists included but you will have to come to the gallery to see the full story; twenty-six artists whose diverse works capture the diverse experiences of artists working with technology or influenced by its structures or aesthetics—a huge topic of course that arguably needs must include all art making today, as even if an artist is choosing to eschew technology that Luddism is a response to it as well. Sorry but maybe everyone is trapped in a post-analog mode, whether they want to be or not.

 

Email raymond@theholenyc.com for more information.

 

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ARes 519

Alan Resnick Johnny Bubble, 2016, digital animation, 3 minutes, 4 seconds

 

OF 488

Otto Ford Human I, 2019, digital painting, photo rag, 79 x 59 inches, 200 x 150 cm

 

AP 455

Adam Parker Smith Ludovisi Gaul, 2018, resin, steel, urethane, chrome, 114 inches tall, 290 cm tall

 

EStern 493

Emma Stern Kinley, 2019, oil on canvas, 68 x 50 inches, 173 x 127 cm

 

RWI 507

Robin F. Williams Chimeras on the Grass, 2011, oil on linen, 74 x 104 inches, 188 x 264 cm

CChe 458

Caitlin Cherry Nukeface Leviathan, 2019, oil on canvas, 57 x 57 inches, 145 x 145 cm

 

SLOV 509

Sven Loren Optimism During a Melt Down, 2017, acrylic on wood panel, 60 x 48 inches, 152 x 122 cm

RL 466

Robert Lazzarini chain-link fence (torn), 2012, steel and pigment, 134 x 276 x 75 inches, 340 x 701 x 191 cm

 

MHL 513

Matt Hansel The Tide That Left And Never Came Back, 2019, oil and flashe paint on linen mounted to panel, 30 x 44 inches, 76 x 112 cm

 

PPed 465

Pedro Pedro Paint Table with Iced Coffee, Banana Peel and Cigarettes, 2019, textile paint on linen, 30 x 28 inches, 76 x 71 cm

 

MB 463

Morgan Blair Western Values Getting You Down? Donate Your Eggs Today To Gain Access To Our Special Membership Bonuses And Bask In The Glow of This 4:39 am Flash Mob Gender-Reveal Live Streaming From The Parking Lot of America Liquors in Beautiful Downtown Breckinridge!, 2019, acrylic and sand on canvas over panel, 48 x 60 inches, 122 x 152 cm

 

MD 464

Michael Dotson Juicy Jasmine, 2019, acrylic on panel, 36 x 36 inches, 91 x 91 cm

 

BRBR 517.1

Brian Bress Astronaut (Boris on grey lines), 2018, high definition single-channel video (color), high definition monitor and player, wall mount, framed, edition 1/1, 37 x 22 inches, 94 x 56 cm, 31 minutes, 43 seconds loop

 

BenJ 135

Ben Jones Ladder Series, 2015, acrylic gouache on MDF, 93 x 240 inches, 236 x 610 cm

 

RKUN 516

Rannva Kunoy Protectionism, 2017, acrylic, pigments, and dispersion on canvas, 47 x 38 inches, 119 x 97 cm

JEEL 523

Jeff Elrod Sienna Plume, 2017, UV ink on Fisher canvas, 72 x 62 inches, 183 x 157.5 cm

 

JEEL 522

Jeff Elrod Here to Infinity (for L.R.), 2017, UV ink on Fisher canvas, 72 x 62 inches, 183 x 157.5 cm

 

APE 457

Ara Peterson Untitled, 2013, wood and acrylic paint, 94 x 143.5 x 3 inches, 239 x 365 x 8 cm

 

CK 518

Clinton King Luminal Bloom, 2019, oil on canvas, 64 x 50 inches, 161 x 127 cm

 

RROZ 511

Rafaël Rozendaal Abstract Browsing 17 03 01 (Pirate Bay), 2017, jacquard weaving, 79 x 57 inches, 200 x 144 cm

ARes 520

Alan Resnick Digital Painting, 2011, digital video, 3 minutes, 53 seconds, edition of 5

 

JRMS 461

Josh Reames All I Want, 2018, oil, acrylic, acrylic transfer, popsicle stick, rag, celluclay on canvas, 60 x 50 inches, 152 x 127 cm

 

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Maja Djordjevic I will play!, 2018, enamel on PVC foam sheets, 98 x 79 x 59 inches, 250 x 200 x 150 cm

 

AV 456

Anne Vieux +plush+, 2019, acrylic on canvas, 100 x 72 inches, 254 x 183 cm

 

 

 

CAHOFF 514

Cathrin Hoffmann Perpetuum Me, 2018, oil on canvas, 39 x 55 inches, 99 x 140 cm

 

JCH 459

Jonathan Chapline Sitcom Set, 2019, acrylic and flashe on panel, 36 x 47 inches, 91 x 119 cm

 

KJos 478

Kara Joslyn X-Fan, 2018, acrylic and polymer automotive paint on panel, 36 x 24 inches, 91 x 61 cm

 

KJos 462

Kara Joslyn Disappear Here, 2018, acrylic and polymer automotive paint on panel, 36 x 24 inches, 91 x 61 cm

 

 

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Takeshi Murata Son of Gumbone, 2017, pigment print (mounted and framed), 30 x 24 inches, edition 2/3 + 2AP

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Takeshi Murata Forbidden Flute, 2017, pigment print (mounted and framed), 24 x 32 inches, 61 x 81 cm, edition 2/3 + 2AP