Unplugged

Unplugged
Painting in the Age of Technology

May 19, 2003 – January 4, 2004
Public Reception: Friday May 30, 2003 5:30-7:30 p.m.

Since its inception, the process of painting has crept onto every surface, into nearly every configuration imaginable and continues to thrive and reinvent itself with each new generation of artists.

Unplugged is a celebration of painting as an enduring practice that transcends our new century’s impulse for instantaneous information, exchange, production and communication. In recent decades, numerous artists have embraced computer-generated and highly mechanized means of creative expression, reflecting our culture’s thrust toward the development of a technologically superior, ‘hands-free’ society.

The eighteen artists gathered for this exhibition describe personal and observed visions of landscape, portraiture, pattern, abstraction, still life, and new ways of thinking about the process of painting itself. While relationships between these works can be drawn, each artist’s particular point of view is punctuated by the distinction of their marks and their passion for connecting brush with surface.

Scott Brodie
Richard Callner
Christian Carson
Sara Di Dinato
Richard Garrison
John Hampshire
John Hanson
Aaron Holz
Carol Luce
Robert Moylan
Lillian Mulero
Michael Oatman
Gina Occhiogrosso
Bruce Stiglich
Peter Taylor
Stephen J. Tyson
Laura Von Rosk
Deborah Zlotsky