Raphael Di Luzio
The Eye in Time
October 12 - November 3, 2007
Opening reception:
Friday, Oct. 12, 5 - 7 pm

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raphaeldiluzio.com

Responding to the high level of public interest inspired by the Maine Center for Creativity’s recent digital video art project, Jameson Modern hosts a solo exhibition of new work by artist and University of Maine Orono professor Raphael Di Luzio. This exhibition focuses on what the artist has labeled “time-based paintings” – digital imagery that is captured and combined in montage, in superimposed images, and in variable speeds. These paintings use all of the elements that we are familiar with in traditional painting: color, shape, texture, and so forth, and yet – they are moving images, contained within the frame of the picture plane, and imbued with the power to move. In fact one of his time-based paintings, about global warming, will be projected onto a block of ice during the opening evening.

This Jameson Modern exhibition represents a continuation of the Maine Center for Creativity’s arts-and-industry collaboration with artist and professor Di Luzio in their groundbreaking public art performance Light House, a one-hour multi-media event held on August 26. For that project, the artist projected and manipulated live digital video images 6 stories tall on the façade of the FPL power plant building on Cousins Island, while original music for the event was broadcast on local radio WCLZ. For those who did not have an opportunity to witness it then, as well as those who may have seen it first-hand, excerpts from the event are featured in this exhibition, as well as seven time-based paintings never before seen in the United States.

In order to provide viewers with some context of Di Luzio’s past work and his interest in maintaining the connection to his new media work, Jameson Modern is exhibiting examples of his highly accomplished drawings and paintings as well. (He was a graduate student in painting under legendary Maine painter Neil Welliver.)

The artist will present a gallery talk on Saturday, October 13, at 1:30 p.m