Featured Artist Anne Spalter

Enjoy the fascinating and creative portfolio of artist Anne Spalter, and visit her website for more information.

 

Sunrise Over Rockefeller Center, HD video

Frame from Sunrise Over Rockefeller Center, NYC. 3-min seamless looping HD 1080p digital video. 2011. Edition of 3 plus AP. Click image for video.

 

I create my modern landscapes in order to better see and understand the world around me. Just as one might meditate on a problem or idea, examining a landscape visually allows one insights that the regular conscious mind would not afford. When it works both I, and hopefully my viewers, see environmental elements—such as buildings, technological structures, highways, and the colors of landscapes, seascapes and skyscapes, in eye-opening ways.

 

Cathedral, Zagreb

Cathedral, Zagreb. 2013. 3-min seamless looping HD 1080p digital video. 2011. Edition of 3 plus AP. Click image for video.

 

I show work in a variety of formats—from standard wall-mounted screens to a new form of furniture—the video coffee table.

 

Video Table

Video-Table: A custom-made piece of fine art furniture with embedded 46” screen. 2013. Shown here running 5th Avenue Boogie Woogie, NYC. 3-min seamless looping HD 1080p digital video. Edition of 3 plus AP. Click image for video.

 

My work is informed by previous experience with traditional media—I feel more like I am painting now, using digital video, than I did using oil paints. Although the media is different, issues of composition and color remain the same.  I was a math major in college and have been thrilled to be able to bring the mathematical, geometric order made possible by the computer into my work. The experience of shooting the video and working on many instances of a final piece is in the spirit of action painting.

 

Sky of Dubai

Sky of Dubai. Frame from 3-min seamless looping HD 1080p digital video. Edition of 3 plus AP. 2012. Click image for video.

 

I began making these kaleidoscopic works because of a trip I took to Dubai—I have always loved Islamic art and I suddenly saw how the computer and my landscape ideas could merge in these patterned compositions.

 

Factory, HD video

Frame from Factory, RI. 3-min seamless looping HD 1080p digital video. 2011. Edition of 3 plus AP. Click image for video.

 

I am inspired by modern, often technological landscapes and I shoot all my own video and stills during trips to both large cities and remote locations around the world. I then use custom software to control the many parameters involved in designing the final sequences.

 

Lagoon Decal

Lagoon, Bora Bora. 10-foot Removable Wall Decal. Concept rendering. 2013.

 

These include the center of focus, transparency, tiling and mirroring, degrees of symmetry (number of “petals” of the image), angles of rotation, speed, and more. I use the custom software in conjunction with Adobe After Effects, a video editing and special effects environment that lets me perform color balancing and other standard operations.

 

Palm Fronds Bora Bora

Palm Fronds, Bora Bora. Wall decal. Sizes vary. 2013. Click image for video.

 

I am currently working on a series of videos based on footage I shot in Bora Bora. I was amazed by the lush landscape and incredible color range on this small island.

 

Video Gems

Video Gems. Mini rechargeable screens embedded in resin. Sizes vary. 2013.

 

I have been exploring new ways of working with the video and still images, including large-scale wall decals, projections, and “video gems.” The video gems are small battery-powered screens encased in resin. The wireless, rechargeable sculptures offer a whole new way for people to enjoy fine art video.

 

Comments

  1. alice morgan says

    Nice overview of Anne Spalter’s work, though brief.

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