Essay of the Exhibition

EVOCATIVE PRINTS

Joan Truckenbrod's evocative image of people and things was of layers of scanned images manipulated with the computer. Victor Acevedo's computer image vibrantly captures the frenzied euphoria of the new millennium. Loren Means exhibited a fascinating image of richly colored soap bubbles in deep reds and blues which contrasted with Dennis Summers' video still of letters that seemed to be on fire in a green background. Anna Urysin's black linear abstraction on a light background combined computer programming in Fortran with scanned images. Gordon Clyne's line-drawing abstraction of three women at a party was made with his own computer program. Michael Wright's staring self portrait was based on a video still that he transformed with a paint program. Daniel Shulman-Means' huge mismatched eyes were drawn with the computer.

COSMIC ABSTRACTIONS

Roger Ferragallo's painting of the universe was digitally affixed to the canvas. Valerie Sky's computer created abstraction looks like a beautiful meteorite whirling in space.Margaret Astrid Phanes' ritualistic round image surrounded by mystic symbols and Kit Monroe Pravda's shimmery collage were made by combining photographs with computer graphics. Larry Shaw combined the friendly image of the Golden Gate Bridge dissolving in a whirling fractal fog in his digital collage. Michael Smit combined letters and patterns with computer drawing. Helen Golden took a scanned newspaper photograph and rearranged and manipulated it so that the colorful, enlarged dots became part of the composition in her large digital print on archival paper.
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