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Primordial Soup
Exploring the evolution and entropy of
primordial form.
by Eva Speer
VIVEZA ART EXPERIENCE welcomes the
return of artist Eva Speer for Primordial Soup, an exclusive showcase of her
mixed-media journey through the genesis and inevitable mutation of all forms,
natural and artificial, from the macrocosm to the microcosm. Influenced, in
part, by her fascination with the global warming phenomena, Speer creates
complex, emergent entities through an alchemy of digitally altered, reduced, and
expanded imagery.
ON EXHIBIT: October 4th – November 5th, 2006
Reception on Friday October 6th, 6 – 10 PM. Speer will be present.
Eva Speer
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Biography
Though the first works that Speer showed with VIVEZA
in 2004 were in the medium of oil painting, she put down her paintbrush for this
new series and began experimenting with various materials and textures in order
to attain the "layering and delicacy" required to fulfill her aesthetic vision.
"I wanted to let the material be in control and acquire its own life on the
canvas," she noted. "My work revolves around a process of fracture and
reassembly wherein my approximations of reality and the physical world can be
set in motion and confounded. The images result from discoveries about materials
and working processes as well as a search for structures that allow me to
address the mutability of form, the inconstancy of time and space and the
complexity of visual phenomena."
Through her meticulous process of distortion, using Xeroxes, scanners, inkjet
printers and the like, Speer transforms rigid, man-made designs into an organic
vision of life deforming as it is forming. The resulting collages of mutated
imagery explore the ongoing evolution and entropy of primordial form.
"While the paintings exude a sense of their own mortality, I try to suspend
catastrophe and protect the structures by interjecting playful forms and
materials that negotiate relief, like figurative steam holes," she said. "Such
forms acquire the characteristics of strange aquatic creatures and bulbous body
parts."
While Speer looks to animal life, specifically at the deep sea and cellular
level, as the inspiration for the formal qualities of her work, the patterned
similarities that exist between organic systems, social systems, technological
systems, and so on, emerge from the conceptual fusion and confusion of form and
function that compose her works.
"Systems in general represent how we organize our lives and how systems do break
up and this imagery reflects my sense of the instability of the complex networks
that we build to connect to each other," she said. "I see my work as a realm
that negotiates the connections and transitions between idealized environments
and an absurd messy reality."
All work, artist statements, and biographies can be viewed online at
www.viveza.com.
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