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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 28, 2000
PICT
An Exhibition at the Walter Phillips Gallery
August 11 - October 8, 2000
Curators: Yvonne Force & Carmen Zita
BANFF, ALBERTA - The Walter Phillips Gallery is pleased to present PICT, a group exhibition featuring works that explore new perspectives on technology and computer-based art through digitally inspired paintings.
The personal computer has had a dramatic impact on contemporary society, perhaps no less influential than the concept of perspective during the Renaissance. Technology has not only revolutionized our way of performing tasks, but has also changed our perception, providing us with a new landscape, a new aesthetic. This exhibition presents the relationship between technological advances and traditional painting.
Artists Matthew Antezzo, Pedro Barbeito, Miltos Manetas, and Julian Opie draw inspiration from the technological tools of computers, citing them as both vehicles for expression and fodder for new subject matter. Jeff Elrod, Carl Fudge, Wayne Gonzales and Monique Prieto each design the composition and the palette of their paintings and then morph the reality of an image through the use of the computer. PICT also includes work such as computer-generated oil-jet paintings by Jack Pierson, a projected "virtual" painting on DVD by Jeremy Blake, and works by precursory pioneer of digital painting, Peter Halley.
PICT was curated by Yvonne Force and Carmen Zita. Their other curatorial projects include SHOW, featuring Vanessa Beecroft, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1998; SHOW part2, featuring Doug Aitken, Fondation Cartier, Paris, 1998; Contemporary Artists from China, Lehmann Maupin Gallery, NY, 1998 and BELIEF Billboard, featuring Jessica Diamond, Chicago, 1997. Yvonne Force resides in New York City where she runs the Art Production Fund. Carmen Zita currently lives and works in London, England.
The Opening Reception on Friday, August 11 at 7 pm is open to the public, as is the Curator's Walk-through on Saturday, August 12 at 2 pm. Admission to both events is free.
Images are available at ftp.banffcentre.ab.ca/pub/incoming/brendan_french