"markingtime" Exhibition

Sloan Fine Art

poster for "markingtime" Exhibition

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In their work, collaborators Lilla LoCurto and Bill Outcault focus on the frailty of the human body along with issues of perception, both visual and psychological. Employing a three-dimensional whole body scanner and using it as a camera, the artists capture, abstract and re-visualize the human figure. The scanned figures are hollow, skin deep and, when rendered topographically, can be sectioned into thin slices, turning them into ribbons of flesh. These calligraphic shards of sliced figures become painterly abstractions, at times like brushstrokes, of varying weights and intensities. With this combination of the hollow figure and fragmented sections of skin, we are confronted with elements that are simultaneously familiar and unreal, anonymous but universal, vulnerable yet thriving. The animations, originating as they do from scanned photographic models, retain a sense of stillness despite their motion, and like photographs remain silent. The artists present their videos in sculptural encasements, enabling them to show synchronized, multi-channel animations and to use monitors of diverse sizes with the moving images flowing through the channels and no longer confined to their space of origin. The prints being presented are extracted moments from these animations, often built from many layers, and revisited from multiple perspectives at the same instant in time.

[Image: “telamon [4]” (2009) pigment print, 24” x 34” (from the three-channel video animation “telamon,” 2009, 04:17.00, 14” x 39” x 6”)]

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from November 11, 2009 to December 12, 2009

Opening Reception on 2009-11-11 from 18:00 to 20:00

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