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DIGITALISM Exhibition – 3D Derivative Artworks and 3D Animations

Thrilled about my upcoming show with Jenniffer Omaitz and Meagan Smith titled “Digitalism” at Context Fine Art with openings on September 18 and September 20.

I’ll be showing new router cut prints on acrylic of work derived from 3d virtual models.

In addition to the artworks, I will also be showing 8 animations of my 3D work on a TV. Four of the animations are the ‘Parents’ to the artworks in the show. The other four are structures that hover between art and architecture. The animations are choreographed with music and there will be headphones to listen.

DIGITALISM
Context Fine Art is located at 78th Street Studios, 3rd Floor
1300 W. 78th Street, 1305 W 80th St, Cleveland, OH 44102

Opening; Wednesday September 18, 6-8pm
Third Friday’s 5-9pm or by Appointment

Pictured:
RESOLVER I
cnc cut out uv inkjet on acrylic mounted to composite aluminum
derived from virtual 3d model.

The following are stills from the animations of structures that blur boundaries between art and architecture.

MONUMENT TO SOCIAL MEDIA

TELOFLUX

STELLA OCTANGULA

STELLA OCTANGULA

ASTRADOME

ASTRADOME

This is a screencast clip one of those, STELLA OCTANGULA, being rendered. I sped up the clip 6 times showing 2 frames being rendered. This animation in total has 1,800 frames and took 25 hours to render. The renderings are choreographed with music and there will be headphones to listen.

I was awarded the Ohio Arts Council’s Artists With Disabilities Access Program (ADAP) Grant for fiscal year 2024.

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TELOFLUX

TELOFLUX continues my explorations of geometric forms challenging myself to merge the visual arts and architecture envisioning geometric structures that blur their boundaries.

The title TELOFLUX derives from the Greek word Telos meaning complete, final, perfect and Flux referring to something that is not done, moving, flowing, changing, evolving. I like contradictions.

Animation of TELOFLUX

Music: from the original soundtrack to the film METROPOLIS: I. Auftakt: Metropolis Thema, composed by Gottfried Huppertz, perfomed by Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin conducted by Frank Strobel

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Animation of ASTRADOME and Stills of the Animation

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Continuing my exploration of the Asterisk symbol in 3D, I’ve envisioned a dome with asterisks as flowers with a bud like form sprouting out of them. The asterisks are supported by a geodesic dome structure.

The animation begins with the geodesic structure and then the flowers begin to bloom on it. When I create 3d structures there’s always little surprises when the time comes to render them. They come alive when I add a virtual sun as the light source. Light not only illuminates color but also form, as the shadows cast reveal the shape and depths of all the parts. In this animation, I enter inside the dome and was delighted to see intricate shadows cast by the sun shining through on the ground plane.

Below are a few snap shot stills from the animation. The first image shows the geodesic dome with the first flower. As the animation progresses the flowers all bloom on the dome.

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