“Dot Matrix” from my Tech Vanitas series is on view at the Princeton University Art Museum. Don't miss the exhibition Art about Art: Contemporary Photographers Look at Old Master Paintings closing on November 5th.
The multi-artist exhibition was curated by Ronni Baer, Allen R. Adler, Class of 1967, Distinguished Curator and Lecturer, with Peter H. Fox, Curatorial Associate, European art. Contemporary artists include Yasumasa Morimura, Vik Muniz, Nina Katchadourian, Sharon Core, Bas Meeuws, Ori Gersht, Bill Viola, and Jeanette May
While a new museum building is under construction, this exhibition is presented at Princeton's Art on Hulfish space in downtown Princeton. Art on Hulfish is located at 11 Hulfish St, Princeton, NJ 08542.
More information from the Princeton University Art Museum:
Focusing on portraiture and still life, the exhibition features contemporary artists who use photography and video to reimagine paintings by early modern European artists. For example, Yasumasa Morimura finds inspiration for his theatrical self-presentations in portraits by Leonardo da Vinci, Jan van Eyck, and others. Vik Muniz and Nina Katchadourian toy with the artist’s toolbox, referencing well-known portraits by Renaissance and Baroque artists but using unexpected media to impart a sense of fun and whimsy to their images. Sharon Core, who meticulously grows her own horticultural specimens, and Bas Meeuws, who plays with scale and saturated color in his hyperrealistic photographs of flowers, draw on seventeenth-century Dutch floral imagery to delve into issues of picture-making and perception. Jeanette May investigates her anxiety about new technology and her love of obsolete machines in a carefully constructed jumble that recalls a Dutch tabletop still life. Ori Gersht ponders the relationship between beauty and violence by exploding three-dimensional versions of European still lifes. By exploring the various ways artists engage with the history of art, this exhibition showcases creative choices, artistic intent, and visual exchanges across time.
