"Wireless" New Work by Rex Bruce

The curator of the LACDA is showing some of his work ----

NICHE.LA
Spring Arts Tower
453 S. Spring St. #441
Los Angeles, CA 90013

Niche.LA Presents: "Wireless"New Work by Rex Bruce March 9-April 1, 2006
Opening Reception: March 9, 8-10pm

In his new series "Wireless" Los Angeles artist Rex Bruce presents images and videos taken with a cell phone camera where the subject is the "air" in which mobile communications are transmitted. Within the abject looking sky-scapes the very tops of golden arches, street lamps, vernacular decoration and architecture jut upwards into the frame. Often included are telephone poles and slack wires strung between them, an ironic choice considering the instrument with which they were photographed.

Many of the minute VGA images are printed into enormous proportions, where the artifacts of low-resolution, a tiny lens, and uncontrolled hues come to constitute the style of the artwork. The content of the work, the moody quality of their saturated colors and their mottled textures impart a sense of the ever "grungy" aspect of life in Los Angeles that is infused with the commerce driven pop-surreality pervasive to the look of the city. A cogent "connection" is made here, as the contemporary current of millions of wireless calls have become the primary agency of creation in Los Angeles. The result are humorous and lyrical works of compelling beauty.

Other works in the exhibit are composites of multiple images simulating physics based analysis of mobile transmissions that "show" wave propagation and are used to assist in tower/repeater placement in the streets of urban environments. These painterly looking abstractions allude to an invisible "spirit world" created by the totality of immeasurable activity around us in the "air" of the wireless ether.