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Please join us for an online panel featuring R. Mac Holbert of Art Authority and the curators of NYAE's online WING Project Space exhibition, "Equivalents," Alicia Philley and John Cox. Along with show artists John Pomara, Stephen Maine and Amy Vensel, they will discuss the shifting landscape of prints and multiples as more artist create works specifically for the digital realm; such as those featured in “Equivalents.”
About the Participants:
John Cox (born 1980) is an abstract painter based in Croton-on-Hudson, NY. His work embraces technological glitches by employing machine-customized tools to translate experienced digital disorder into gestural marks that imprecisely mimic wave patterns.
R. Mac Holbert is the Chief Imagician of Art Authority. Widely regarded as the world’s first digital printmaking studio focused solely on photography, Nash Editions established an international reputation for fine art photographic digital output. Prior to Nash Editions, Mr. Holbert was the Tour Manager for such music groups as Crosby, Stills & Nash, Peter, Paul & Mary and Carole King. He has long been active in the environmental movement helping to produce benefits for the Cousteau Society, Greenpeace, the Algalita Foundation and others. In 2000 Mac was honored by being named a Computerworld Smithsonian Award Laureate for his pioneering work in digital printmaking. Mr. Holbert has lectured extensively and conducted workshops on digital printing.
Alicia Philley, born 1972, is an abstract painter based in Austin, TX. In her works on wood panels, she layers shimmering lines over the brightly stained wood grain to explore the ways we perceive reflective light and motion in nature.
Stephen Maine (born 1958) is a painter in West Cornwall, CT. Combining the materials of painting and procedures of printmaking, he conveys paint to canvas with an indirect, intentionally imprecise production method using printing plates, which provides a concrete way to think about color, surface, scale, seriality, figure/ground, original/copy, and the psychology of visual perception.
John Pomara, born in 1952 in Dallas, is an American abstract artist who explores the role human error plays in technology, and his paintings intend to capture that concept visually.
Amy Vensel is an American painter based in Las Cruces, NM. Her meticulous process involves the layering of acrylic polymer and pigment to create luminous paintings that echo the backlit screens of today's digital landscape.