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February Issue
2008
Gallery 80808 in Columbia, SC, Features Works by Don Zurlo
Gallery 80808 at Vista Studios in Columbia, SC, will present the exhibit, Atmospheric Noise, Part I, featuring works by Don Zurlo, on view from Feb. 28 through Mar. 4, 2008.
Zurlo offers the following about this show, "One evening last fall I was at Starbuck's having coffee, when I looked out the front window at the Liberty Grill across the street. The neon Liberty sign hung vertically from the front corner of the building, but only 'Libe' was illuminated. I looked away for a few seconds. When I looked back, the whole sign illuminated, spelling out 'Liberty'. This combination of incidents involving two different words in rapid succession seemed like such a curious accident that after I got home that night, I Googled 'libe' to see if it was a real word. I discovered that the meaning of libe in computer language is a C library, which contains various functions dealing with data structures. It seemed like a message with two contradictory meanings freedom as opposed to order. Was there a message in the sign about reconciliation of these concepts? In terms of the physical world, it was nothing more than a malfunctioning sign, but our minds reach beyond this. Our personal perception is integral to our reality."
"I have been trying to incorporate that experience at Starbuck's into my artwork," adds Zurlo. "I thought of my work with color field painting and abstract landscape, and then went back a long time ago to a kinetic light box with random color sequences, Red and Blue, which I exhibited in 1967. In recalling esthetic principles I was working with relating to random events, I began to visualize the creative process as being a combination of accident, intuition, and rational decisions. I found a list randomizer on the internet that would reorder a non-predictable series of numbers based on constantly changing data from atmospheric noise. Using calculations based on the random order of numbers, I began a series of color field paintings which start with these accidents, and are completed using a combination of intuitive and logical decisions. The paintings will be on display in this exhibit and one which will follow."
The exhibit, Atmospheric Noise, Part II, will be on view at Gallery 80808 from May 8 -13, 2008.
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