Leo Villareal "Volume"

Sandra Gering Gallery

poster for Leo Villareal "Volume"

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GERING & LóPEZ GALLERY presents Leo Villareal: Volume. This is Villareal’s fourth solo exhibition with the gallery.

For his first solo exhibition in New York since 2007, Villareal has installed a single, immersive work. Over 20,000 white LED nodes are suspended in a three-dimensional matrix of mirror-finished stainless steel. Its cylindrical form is at once dense and ephemeral, as it shimmers and oscillates between dimensions. Controlled by software code that the artist developed over an extensive period of time, like a composer working over a score, the nodes cycle through a seemingly infinite series of patterns and movements, fast and slow, bright and dark. The piece is a dazzling tone poem that draws the viewer into a deep, abstract space as it warps temporal and visual perception.

Villareal received his BA from Yale University and his MPS from the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. Throughout his career, Villareal has sought to work with the newest developments in technology, beginning with strobe lights in 1997 and moving into the LEDs utilized in this exhibition.

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Schedule

from May 04, 2011 to August 18, 2011
Summer Hours: Monday - Friday 10am - 5pm.

Opening Reception on 2011-05-04 from 18:00 to 20:00

Artist(s)

Leo Villareal

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