“After Midnite” by Jeremy Gardiner
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Jeremy Gardiner
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- London College of Music & Media
- Thames Valley University
- Creative Technology Centre
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Recent developments with ‘digital photography’ and ‘electronic paint systems’ are bridging the gap between painting and photography. While on a Harkness Fellowship in the United States I have been moulding these two new tools into a powerful medium.
Having spent 1984-1985 al Massachusetts Institute of Technology pursuing these developments I decided to move to New York. For several years I have taught as a Professor at the School of Visual Arts and Pratt Institute of Art and Design. However it is on a night shift as a ‘Paintbox’ artist in a T.V. production house in New York City where my interest in the digital medium and portraiture has evolved. Called upon to make subtle changes and manipulations of broadcast images has helped me discover a fine line. The fine line that is the acceptable truth of photographic realism in the media.
Late al night some of the characters it has been my job to work with, trapped in the medium of video like insects in amber, have evolved into a series of portraits ‘Telegenic Charismas’. It is these figures culled from the media; the world of synthesized seamless characters. T. V. evangelists, talk show hosts and news anchormen that became an exhibition organised by the MIT Museum last year. The exhibition took the form of paintings, ink jets and thermal prints. The work in this show is from that series.
