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For his upcoming show at the Susan Hobbs Gallery, Scott Lyall continues to work on the link between technologies of the image and aesthetic experience. Building incrementally over the last several years, Lyall’s work has taken shape as abstract painting, relief work, colourized glass, and photographs. Here, these occur in a single exhibition, and are bound by common principles of format and picturing. This employs a broad definition of picturing, encompassing a set of distributed contrasts. Lyall defines the space in which he works as a scene. Picturing occurs within the medium of this scene—as object, surface, images and lighting, ambulatory relay, spacing, and décor—and, also, as a scenographic diagram itself.
Within the show are works containing Nanomedia images, a process in which leaf-like wafers of aluminum are altered at the scale of their sub-visible particles. Mimicking the structure of the wings of butterflies, the foils cause environmental light to refract into...More
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For his upcoming show at the Susan Hobbs Gallery, Scott Lyall continues to work on the link between technologies of the image and aesthetic experience. Building incrementally over the last several years, Lyall’s work has taken shape as abstract painting, relief work, colourized glass, and photographs. Here, these occur in a single exhibition, and are bound by common principles of format and picturing. This employs a broad definition of picturing, encompassing a set of distributed contrasts. Lyall defines the space in which he works as a scene. Picturing occurs within the medium of this scene—as object, surface, images and lighting, ambulatory relay, spacing, and décor—and, also, as a scenographic diagram itself.
Within the show are works containing Nanomedia images, a process in which leaf-like wafers of aluminum are altered at the scale of their sub-visible particles. Mimicking the structure of the wings of butterflies, the foils cause environmental light to refract into...More
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