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The gallery is pleased to present Glitch://Life, Jeff Overlie’s first solo exhibition at Marc Straus, featuring new paintings and sculptures. The works are divided into two series of abstract paintings and two series of steel sculptures.
The first painting series, Blackberry Horizons, is based on digital glitches from a faulty phone camera taken fifteen years ago. Bands of color stretch and dissolve, colors shift unexpectedly, and fragments of lines hover on the edge of recognition. Overlie digitally blew up these images and carefully traced them by hand, staying true to the imperfect output of a device. These images are glitchy, often unrecognizable, and unfit for use. And yet, Overlie chose to embrace these ‘flawed’ results and use them to inform his artistic practice of abstract painting. What could be dismissed as an error instead becomes a defining element of Overlie’s artistic process. In BH-00190-1824, what might have been considered a...More
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The gallery is pleased to present Glitch://Life, Jeff Overlie’s first solo exhibition at Marc Straus, featuring new paintings and sculptures. The works are divided into two series of abstract paintings and two series of steel sculptures.
The first painting series, Blackberry Horizons, is based on digital glitches from a faulty phone camera taken fifteen years ago. Bands of color stretch and dissolve, colors shift unexpectedly, and fragments of lines hover on the edge of recognition. Overlie digitally blew up these images and carefully traced them by hand, staying true to the imperfect output of a device. These images are glitchy, often unrecognizable, and unfit for use. And yet, Overlie chose to embrace these ‘flawed’ results and use them to inform his artistic practice of abstract painting. What could be dismissed as an error instead becomes a defining element of Overlie’s artistic process. In BH-00190-1824, what might have been considered a...More
