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Color is hallucinations of skin. —Empedocles
Miguel Abreu Gallery is pleased to announce the opening, on Sunday, March 3rd, of Superstar, Scott Lyall’s fifth solo exhibition at the gallery. The show will be on view at our 88 Eldridge Street location.
Drawing on a variety of recent work, Lyall continues to investigate links between technologies of the image and aesthetic experience.
Among the works included in the current exhibition are jewel-like pictures made with Nanomedia. Wafer-thin foils of cloned aluminum are altered at the level of their sub-visible particles, rendering structures that cannot be seen. But like certain plants and butterfly wings, these structures cause light to disperse and scatter. Whenever light encounters this exposed material, it shatters into billions of chromatic signals. The color is not derived from pigments or chemicals; it is the real-time appearance of the radiating light as it is scattered by the non-visible structures of the foil. This could be…
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Color is hallucinations of skin. —Empedocles
Miguel Abreu Gallery is pleased to announce the opening, on Sunday, March 3rd, of Superstar, Scott Lyall’s fifth solo exhibition at the gallery. The show will be on view at our 88 Eldridge Street location.
Drawing on a variety of recent work, Lyall continues to investigate links between technologies of the image and aesthetic experience.
Among the works included in the current exhibition are jewel-like pictures made with Nanomedia. Wafer-thin foils of cloned aluminum are altered at the level of their sub-visible particles, rendering structures that cannot be seen. But like certain plants and butterfly wings, these structures cause light to disperse and scatter. Whenever light encounters this exposed material, it shatters into billions of chromatic signals. The color is not derived from pigments or chemicals; it is the real-time appearance of the radiating light as it is scattered by the non-visible structures of the foil. This could be…
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