Gary Kaleda
Forward Slash
Technology, Transcendence & Tea
Anderson Contemporary is pleased to announce the opening of FORWARD SLASH / an exhibition featuring three New York-based digital artists exploring humanity’s relationship to technology, transcendence and tea.
With their delicate brushstrokes and quiet sensuality, Gary Kaleda’s figurative works build on tradition and leverage technology to transcend painting. He is the first artist to incorporate QR codes into his work, offering simple interactivity with extraordinary subtlety. A classically trained painter, Kaleda’s self-motivated and self-taught foray into digital art began in the early ‘90s and has continued to grow with an ongoing focus on the underlying uncertainty and beauty that exists within humanity’s relationship to technology.
Recognized for her national and international public works, the meditative animating paintings of Malin Abrahamsson capture a deep fascination with transformation and transcendence: the process through which a thing, place, state, or being is changed into something entirely different. Through her use of technology to create tranquil, evolving environments, Abrahamsson underscores the critical importance of existential transformation to human life and to a creative rebellion against stasis. And as humanity evolves, is through our own profound transformation that transcendence is possible.
With a highly unique approach to technology and transcendence, Erik Sanner constructs a Mars Tearoom as a means to juxtapose the ancient and complicated history of tea with the likely near-future human inhabitation of Mars. Within this alternate space, Sanner will serve tea while instigating conversations that acknowledge how the entire history of humanity is loaded with both beautiful artistic practices and simultaneous brutal repression. With a huge potential for growth and transcendence, we face an evolving situation that may ultimately hold more of the same. The future has yet to be written.
Technology, Transcendence & Tea
Anderson Contemporary is pleased to announce the opening of FORWARD SLASH / an exhibition featuring three New York-based digital artists exploring humanity’s relationship to technology, transcendence and tea.
With their delicate brushstrokes and quiet sensuality, Gary Kaleda’s figurative works build on tradition and leverage technology to transcend painting. He is the first artist to incorporate QR codes into his work, offering simple interactivity with extraordinary subtlety. A classically trained painter, Kaleda’s self-motivated and self-taught foray into digital art began in the early ‘90s and has continued to grow with an ongoing focus on the underlying uncertainty and beauty that exists within humanity’s relationship to technology.
Recognized for her national and international public works, the meditative animating paintings of Malin Abrahamsson capture a deep fascination with transformation and transcendence: the process through which a thing, place, state, or being is changed into something entirely different. Through her use of technology to create tranquil, evolving environments, Abrahamsson underscores the critical importance of existential transformation to human life and to a creative rebellion against stasis. And as humanity evolves, is through our own profound transformation that transcendence is possible.
With a highly unique approach to technology and transcendence, Erik Sanner constructs a Mars Tearoom as a means to juxtapose the ancient and complicated history of tea with the likely near-future human inhabitation of Mars. Within this alternate space, Sanner will serve tea while instigating conversations that acknowledge how the entire history of humanity is loaded with both beautiful artistic practices and simultaneous brutal repression. With a huge potential for growth and transcendence, we face an evolving situation that may ultimately hold more of the same. The future has yet to be written.
Malin Abrahamsson
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Erik Sanner
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