ART: New digital paintings on WWW
mike flugennock
such that any serious Deadhead can appreciate it:
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"Vaguely Shakespearean": Digital paintings by Michael Swartzbeck
now available for viewing on the WWW
http://myhouse.com/mikesite/vaguely/vague01.html
I live on Capitol Hill, in Washington, DC; on my many assorted beer runs,
dog walks, and other trips around the neighborhood, my route almost
always takes me past the grand old Folger Shakespeare Library building,
on East Capitol Street. It's quite a great old institution, and the
building itself is a grand piece of theater, bearing around its perimeter
a series of large, deep relief sculptures depicting scenes from some of
the Bard's most famous works. I've always enjoyed stopping by and taking
a close look at the reliefs, and one day while out doing a shoot at the
Capitol for a series of Web pages I was building for my company, I passed
the Folger Library on the way home and, realizing I still had a good
two-thirds of the frames left on the roll I had in the camera, went right
up to the reliefs and started shooting away.
The images resulting from that shoot have been used as basic source
material for a series of montages loosely based ("loosely" is the
operative term) around the central theme of Shakespeare, thus the name of
this exhibit. Also included in these pieces are various original and
found images including Space Shuttle images, astronomical fotos, items
reflected in the surfaces of lakes, and small forest-floor plants, among
others.
Unlike most of my work, in which source images are so altered and removed
from their original context as to render the collages totally abstract,
I've tried to keep just a bare amount of resemblance to the original in
these pieces -- to leave the images of the relief sculptures as a subtle
literal underpinning to the abstract synthesis of images, colors and forms.
The series consists of nine images in JPEG format, created with Adobe
Photoshop 2.5.1 on the Apple Macintosh IIsi, from original fotos by the
artist along with found images and objects.
For more information: Michael Swartzbeck, sin...@his.com
http://myhouse.com/mikesite/home.html
http://myhouse.com/mikesite/resume/swartzbeck.html
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better stand back, the flames are high
better get help, can't stop the fire
bell's gonna ring, hear the alarms,
better tell the fire chief to quit playing cards!
--rolling stones
mike swartzbeck * sin...@clark.net, sin...@his.com
http://204.156.22.13/mikesite/home.html
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