Printing Mandala Machine
Bits & Pieces at Maria Neil Art Project
click here to see all works in show on Maria Neil Art Project page
Excerpt from Article “Second Life” by Josh Usmani, Cleveland Scene Magazine:
Bits in Pieces includes Reach’s latest large-scale, geometric digital prints, smaller “whimsies” (as Reach refers to them) and new 3-D printed mixed media sculptures, called Model Citizens. “I wanted to explore ways of making sculpture digitally,” says Reach. “I’ve been enjoying the process of working with 3D printing. I’m mixing other digital fabrication technology into them; parts in wood are cut on a CNC Router that is basically a cutting robot, and the stainless steel base has its pattern laser cut on a laser cutter, another cutting robot.
“In my quest to embrace technology to have a voice, I am just beginning to embark to explore this technology in my art,” he continues. “As an architect, three-dimensional form is always in the background. Making sculptures would be too physically demanding. But when I first learned of 3-D printing it occurred to me that here was a medium that I could produce sculpture without the physicality involved, thus giving me a new avenue of creative expression.”
Article in Cleveland Scene Magazine – click here to read article online
BITS IN PIECES at Maria Neil Art Project
I’m pleased to announce my solo exhibition BITS IN PIECES at Maria Neil Art Project located in the Waterloo Arts District in the Collinwood neighborhood of Cleveland.
January 2 – February 15, 2015
opening reception Friday, January 2, 2015 – 5:00pm to 10:00pm
Maria Neil Art Project
15813 Waterloo Road
Cleveland, OH 44110
My art is inextricably tied to technology; the software to make it; the hardware required of the software to render images; the printer to translate it from computer code to the real world. All these things are required if I am going to be able to make it and share it. There are two forms of digital images,VECTOR and BITMAP. My art resides in the later. The program I use, photoshop, is software for creation and editing of bitmap images. Bitmap images are made up of a map of pixels in a grid. When I begin an artwork, like pixels in bitmap images, I like to start with building blocks that I will put together. A construction project of sorts. I build with color and shapes, putting pieces together to build the whole composition. All of these bits amount to much for me. Making these artworks re-energizes me and I hope they do the same for you.
BitsGlitch 1
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