Art Exhibit: Skirmantas Pipas and InLiquid Art + Design Video Installation
Exhibits open December 9 and run through March 2
The opening reception for these two exhibits is on Wednesday, December 14 at 6pm. Please RSVP by clicking here.
Skirmantas Pipas
Growing up, I fit into statistical data revealing that children clock more hours online and playing video games than interacting in physical reality. My generation grew up choosing such fantasies over reality, aided by parents who answered questions with pills and television programs. Through my work, I explore these synthetic environments we occupy as our lives are saturated with simulacra. The contemplative, slow, Old World processes of painting and drawing help me remove fragments of the spectacle of this shared daydream to allow me to deconstruct how I am shaped by the psychological blitz of mass media. Skirmantas Pipas was born in Vilnius, Lithuania in 1985. He earned his certificate and MFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. He currently lives and works in Philadelphia.
with Pete Zebley
I make works on canvas, wood panels, aluminum and archival paper using acrylic paint and oil paint as well as graphite, paint markers and spray paint. I consider myself a painter with debts owed to Chris Wool, Andy Warhol, Francis Bacon and photography. I work through painting and lo-tech imagery to find spaces between areas of existence, experience and debate. These paintings are windows into my progress toward transcending my influences. I work out a visual balance between simplicity and timeless complexity, to give my paintings life which is both ambiguous and explicit. I constantly search with urgency for visual statements which words fail to describe. –Pete Zebley
InLiquid Art + Design Video Installation: Murals Set in Motion
Organized by Sean Stoops
Murals Set in Motion is an exhibition of videos and visual art related to recent mural video art / “motion painting” projects created in Philadelphia and other cities. The highlighted videos are: Cosmic Terrarium (2010) and Muralmorphosis (2009) – two digital shorts directed by curator Sean Stoops (in collaboration with the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program); Finnstump featuring the mural art of Paul Santoleri; Christopher Davison’s Brawler video based on his recent drawing installation at University of the Arts, Room and Garden by the Japanese art collective, Rinpa Eshidan; and The Favela Painting Project, a short documentary by Haas&Hahn (Jeroen Koolhaas and Dre Urhahn) – Mural Arts Program visiting artists from the Netherlands. All of the featured videos incorporate stop-motion or time lapse video effects in some way. Original art and documentary photographs that correlate with the featured video work will also be on display.
