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With my work in the early eighties I began to experiment with using computer graphics paint systems to directly “frame grab” a subject. Limits in resolution led me digitally collage multiple views together to achieve greater detail resulting in a composite image which could be produced in no other way. I noted my affinity with the strategy of analytical cubism of Picasso and Braque to juxtapose multiple points of view as well as the Polaroid collage portraits by David Hockney.
In my earlier digital prints I varied the pixel resolution to create an artificial depth of focus in the image. This effect mimics the discrete movements of the eye called saccades. The eye foveates or fixates on regions of high-resolution detail. When looking at 2D images we perform a dance of perception. We move not only our eyes but also our entire bodies. We interactively look at parts and wholes of an image at different distances, over time at our own volition.
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Vlada Petric’s personality conjured up Jean-Auguste-Dominique-Ingres’ portrait of Louis Bertin. The full size ink jet print is 38” X 28” and was printed and exhibited in June 2001 at the Digital Media Center for the Arts at Yale University where I was an Associate Artist until July 1, 2001. This work has also been exhibited at SIGGRAPH 2003 in San Diego.
"A Portrait of Vlada Petric (after Ingres)" is showing as part of the exhibition "Ingres et les Modernes" at MUSEE INGRES, Montauban, France; 4 July 2009 to 4 October 2009. This exhibition features the work of artists from Seurat, Matisse, Dali to Cindy Sherman and the Guerilla Girls inspired by work of Jean Dominique Ingres. The exhibition was curated by Jean-Pierre Cuzon, Director (1973-2003) of the Department of Painting of the Louvre and Dimitri Salmon also of the Department of Painting at the Louvre. |
