Helen Levin & Golan Levin "An Intergenerational Exhibition"

Staten Island Museum

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This exhibition captures the colorful improvisational compositions in paint on canvas by abstract painter Helen Levin, and her son, Golan Levin, whose computer applications are presented as real time interactive art experiences for the Museum audience. Visitors to the Museum will enjoy both the visual and the hands-on experiences of the human gesture in art.

Helen Levin's paintings are comprised of color saturated strokes and shapes that emanate from the brush-in-hand; they are inspired by architecture, nature, and improvisational music. Her work demonstrates how paint, the artist's eye and physical actions interpret space, light and dynamics within the picture plane. Her method of automatism - allowing the subconscious to lead her saturated brush - creates mature and stunning works of art that energize the environment.

Drawing from the tradition of gesture painting - but employing rapidly changing technology - Golan Levin's interactive software creations provide participatory art experiences generated from digital "motion capture" techniques. The results are animated shapes, lines, and sounds that contain humor, whimsy, and dramatic timing through movements that are all initiated by the viewer/participant. Technically speaking, Mr. Levin's art and research are concerned with the medium of response and conditions that enable people to experience "flow" or sustained creative feedback with reactive systems. His artwork, which is informed by research in human-computer interaction design, has led him to try to expand the vocabulary of human communication, and to help art viewers discover their own potential as creative actors.

The exhibition will contain Golan Levin's Yellowtail and Meshy pieces (currently available as iPad apps) and are designed for touchscreen technology. These small scale pieces are engaging for individuals in a call-response manner. Mr. Levin will also exhibit the Ghost Pole Propagator, an interactive installation which captures and replays the 'skeletons' of passersby in its environment, creating a layered and dynamic tapestry that reflects the history and activity of a locale.

Mr. Levin is also known for performances, virtual environments, installations, and other internationally presented collaborations, and can be perused on his website: www.flong.com

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from July 01, 2011 to January 08, 2012

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