R. Luke DuBois “Portraits”
Bitforms Gallery
This event has ended.
bitforms gallery presents its inaugural exhibition at a new storefront location on the Lower East Side. Portraits marks the gallery’s third solo exhibition with composer, artist, and performer R. Luke DuBois. It follows the recent success of a touring solo exhibition organized by the Ringling Museum of Art, which was profiled by The New York Times in January. A self-taught programmer, DuBois is best known for his explorations of the temporal, verbal, and visual structures of cultural and personal ephemera. The works on view investigate a wide range of subjects, including American circus performers, William S. Burroughs, and musicians of the downtown New York avant-garde scene.
On opening day, September 14, a live audiovisual performance will kick off the gallery’s new exhibition programming on Allen Street. Featuring DuBois and his musical collaborators, the event will showcase multiple improvisational techniques that employ real-time new media systems. The exhibition will also debut a series of screen-based video portraits that DuBois shot in August, capturing seven of his longtime collaborators: flutist Natacha Diels, bassist Melvin Gibbs, trombonist Chris McIntyre, violinist Todd Reynolds, guitarist Elliott Sharp, cellist Alex Waterman, and composer-performer Bora Yoon. Filmed in high-speed video, and slowed considerably in playback, the individual details not seen by the naked eye become focal points of interest, portraying the inner world of each sitter through the minutiae of their gestures and sounds.
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Schedule
from September 14, 2014 to October 19, 2014
Opening Reception on 2014-09-14 from 15:00 to 19:00