Legacy in Light
Legacy in Light
THE ART OF LESLEY SCHIFF
THE ART OF LESLEY SCHIFF
Lesley Schiff revolutionized the photocopier from being an office tool to just another instrument in the artist's arsenal. Rather than addressing the tool in her work, Schiff instead uses the photocopier like a paintbrush to realize her vision. Once a painter, Schiff says: “I never intended to stop painting. I just decided to start painting with a modern tool. Working with the color laser printer keeps you in your culture. It's like America. Plugged in. Electronic. Direct." Painting with light, Schiff's body of work offers her vision of the cycle of our existence: man, woman, child, civilization, nature, technology. More recent works challenge the viewer to understand the concept of eye-levels and perspectives, reinventing the way we see. Schiff's work was the Metropolitan Museum of Art's first digital acquisition, and most recently, was featured at the Whitney Museum of American Art in "Experiments in Electrostatics".
Lesley Schiff revolutionized the photocopier from being an office tool to just another instrument in the artist's arsenal. Rather than addressing the tool in her work, Schiff instead uses the photocopier like a paintbrush to realize her vision. Once a painter, Schiff says: “I never intended to stop painting. I just decided to start painting with a modern tool. Working with the color laser printer keeps you in your culture. It's like America. Plugged in. Electronic. Direct." Painting with light, Schiff's body of work offers her vision of the cycle of our existence: man, woman, child, civilization, nature, technology. More recent works challenge the viewer to understand the concept of eye-levels and perspectives, reinventing the way we see. Schiff's work was the Metropolitan Museum of Art's first digital acquisition, and most recently, was featured at the Whitney Museum of American Art in "Experiments in Electrostatics".
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In the Whisper of Silence
MONA BRODY COLLECTS
Mona Brody synthesizes the familiar with the remarkable, the natural with the synthetic, and the bizarre with the extraordinary. Her spontaneous paintings reflect the sublime as well as the contemporary experience of the human condition through a sociopolitical lens. A self-described collector of things, Mona links what can be found in the natural world with what is man-made by exposing what makes both sublime. Californian tree pods and barks quickly blossom into beautiful brooches encrusted with gold leaf and freshwater pearls. Fish hooks come to embody the human form, wrapped in gauze and beeswax. Brody currently teaches at Pratt Institute.