Exhibitions – Page 4 – Andrew Reach

Excerpt from Article “Second Life” by Josh Usmani, Cleveland Scene Magazine:

Bits in Pieces includes Reach’s latest large-scale, geometric digital prints, smaller “whimsies” (as Reach refers to them) and new 3-D printed mixed media sculptures, called Model Citizens. “I wanted to explore ways of making sculpture digitally,” says Reach. “I’ve been enjoying the process of working with 3D printing. I’m mixing other digital fabrication technology into them; parts in wood are cut on a CNC Router that is basically a cutting robot, and the stainless steel base has its pattern laser cut on a laser cutter, another cutting robot.

“In my quest to embrace technology to have a voice, I am just beginning to embark to explore this technology in my art,” he continues. “As an architect, three-dimensional form is always in the background. Making sculptures would be too physically demanding. But when I first learned of 3-D printing it occurred to me that here was a medium that I could produce sculpture without the physicality involved, thus giving me a new avenue of creative expression.”

Article in Cleveland Scene Magazine – click here to read article online

December 9, 2014December 18, 2014

BITS IN PIECES at Maria Neil Art Project

I’m pleased to announce my solo exhibition BITS IN PIECES at Maria Neil Art Project located in the Waterloo Arts District in the Collinwood neighborhood of Cleveland.

January 2 – February 15, 2015
opening reception Friday, January 2, 2015 – 5:00pm to 10:00pm

Maria Neil Art Project
15813 Waterloo Road
Cleveland, OH 44110

My art is inextricably tied to technology; the software to make it; the hardware required of the software to render images; the printer to translate it from computer code to the real world. All these things are required if I am going to be able to make it and share it. There are two forms of digital images,VECTOR and BITMAP. My art resides in the later. The program I use, photoshop, is software for creation and editing of bitmap images. Bitmap images are made up of a map of pixels in a grid. When I begin an artwork, like pixels in bitmap images, I like to start with building blocks that I will put together. A construction project of sorts. I build with color and shapes, putting pieces together to build the whole composition. All of these bits amount to much for me. Making these artworks re-energizes me and I hope they do the same for you.

September 25, 2013May 7, 2014

Art Installation at the 2013 Cleveland Ingenuityfest – Sept. 20 – 22, 2013

My artwork ‘Three Comma One’ on cover of Cleveland Plain Dealer Newspaper Friday Section, September 20, 2013

My architectural background comes into the work “Seven Model Citizens”. Within a vocabulary of symbols suggestive of computer code, seven anthropomorphic architectonic constructions are lined up, at once symbolizing individuality and rigid conformity. The blocky formed monoliths conform to a grid where they must reside, yet, each is still unique. The antenna appendage on their heads represents the untethered power we now possess to be connected with smart phones and Wi-Fi.

Model Citizen, 2013
Assembled 3d Prints

In the artwork, the model citizens are represented as flattened and two dimensional but each lives in another 3D world. One of them rendered with 3d printing technology was on display.

The works “Three Comma One” & “Restricted Propulsion” (right to left) represent my left brain and right brain, on a collision course with each other. Grids and symbols, numbers and letters alluding to architectural and engineering drawings (from my left brain) coexist with colorful geometric abstraction (from my right brain).

The word Reformabit is latin to transform or reshape. The works “Reformabit 1” and “Reformabit 2” are studies of relationships of geometric parts all working in harmony to make a dynamic system. They suggest a vocabulary of abstracted engineering drawings. These constructions are also about energy and movement. Again, these works represent a meeting of the two sides of my brain, a balancing act of engineering and creativity.

September 20, 2013September 22, 2013