Patricia McClung, Visual Echoes October 28, 2014 – April 30, 2015 Stanford Art Spaces is pleased to announce a new art exhibition in Building 52 of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center on Sand Hill Road. Visual Echoes features thirteen archival digital prints of scenic or historic spots around the world (including the arcades in the Quad at Stanford) that are composed of hundreds of carefully composited digital images. This first Stanford Art Spaces show at SLAC is an appropriate inauguration because of its blending of science and technology—in this case, digital manipulation— and art. McClung’s photographs of the Brooklyn Bridge, Queensboro Bridge, St. Marks Place, Grand Central Station and New York Library Public Reading Room in New York City; St. Pancras Station and Paddington Square in London; Union Station in Washington DC; the Plaza Mayor in Madrid; Le Grand Palais in Paris; and the Southern Pacific train station in San Francisco capture the dynamism of these public spaces as no static single shot could. McClung: “Initially influenced (transported, is more like it) by David Hockey’s “joiners” and photocollages”—i.e., composed of Polaroid photos, mounted together to form faceted composites, reminiscent of Cubist painting— “I experiment with digital techniques for combining photograph fragments. It is an intuitive process, beginning with the image capture stage, all the way through— months later—to the created scene. Each collaged image is about what is happening in a specific place, and often about the people who pass through the space… It is about a process that is iterative, dynamic, static, random, orderly, musical, mathematical, chaotic, and even magical, all at the same time…” Stanford Art Spaces is an exhibition program serving several Stanford University buildings, primarily the Paul G. Allen Building, housing the Center for Integrated Systems, the program’s longtime sponsor, and the David W. Packard Electrical Engineering Building, with smaller venues (e.g., the Institute for Research in the Social Sciences, the Center for Longevity, the Department for Faculty Development and Diversity, Building 52 in the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, and the Human Resources Department ) located throughout campus or nearby. All are open during normal business hours, although SLAC has limited public access; interested viewers should schedule an appointment. Please see Facebook/StanfordArtSpaces for further information. To arrange a tour, please contact Curator DeWitt Cheng at 650-725-3622 or [email protected].
Posted on: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 19:24:20 +0000
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