Vanessa Tomchik: Green Screen Series, Recent Paintings

July 11 – Aug. 10
Opening Reception: July 10; 6-9 pm

Greenscreen is a term for the filmmaking technique of using a green background for the purpose of replacing it with a different image. The series of drawings and paintings address the issues of looking and seeing, of being fed data and at the same time looking for the unusual connections made by the constant flow of visual information.

In this work, various types of photographs are mixed to distort, collect, complete, and abstract the final image. The fragmented arrangements of the black-and-white images are accented by the green planes that seem to fall across the canvas, heightening the sense of the work’s spatial ambiguity. The painting’s frontality and dominant uniform planes of geometric shape give these works a “cubist” interpretation of abstract structure, space, and color. All together the pieces merge to create whole pictures from fragmentations, while having the final product look relatively seamless.

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Project Room exhibitions are made possible by the John C. Graves Charitable Fund of the Community Foundation of Broward. The 07/08 visual arts season is sponsored by Francie Bishop Good and David Horvitz.

Funding Acknowledgements

The Art and Culture Center of Hollywood is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization supported in part by its members, admissions, private entities, the City of Hollywood, the Broward County Board of County Commissioners as recommended by the Broward Cultural Council; the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, the Florida Council on Arts and Culture; and the Kresge Foundation. We welcome donations from all members of the community who wish to support our work.