Exhibition
Vik Muniz: Haystacks
–Press Release
During the month of May, Rena Bransten Gallery will present new photographic works by Vik Muniz from his Pictures of Colorseries.
Continuing his manipulation of images from popular culture and art history using unexpected materials, Muniz has produced a new body of work replicating Monet's paintings of haystacks. The images are created with pantone color chips that he arranges, photographs, and enlarges. The magnified color chips are like paint dabs or pixels that break up the forms into light and dark tones and are more easily identified from a distance or by squinting. Much of Muniz' work explores how we perceive visual information and how the brain processes the clues and relates them to recorded information. The first group of images from the Pictures of Color series was shown at the 2001 Venice Biennale and included reproductions of a Chuck Close portrait, a Rothko color field and a Van Gogh still-life.
Vik Muniz is an internationally exhibited artist. His work is included in the collection of many major museums, including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Guggenheim Museum, New York, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museo de Arte Contemporanea, Prato, Italy, the Museo de Arte Moderna de Rio de Janiero, Brazil, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
During the month of May, Rena Bransten Gallery will present new photographic works by Vik Muniz from his Pictures of Colorseries.
Continuing his manipulation of images from popular culture and art history using unexpected materials, Muniz has produced a new body of work replicating Monet's paintings of haystacks. The images are created with pantone color chips that he arranges, photographs, and enlarges. The magnified color chips are like paint dabs or pixels that break up the forms into light and dark tones and are more easily identified from a distance or by squinting. Much of Muniz' work explores how we perceive visual information and how the brain processes the clues and relates them to recorded information. The first group of images from the Pictures of Color series was shown at the 2001 Venice Biennale and included reproductions of a Chuck Close portrait, a Rothko color field and a Van Gogh still-life.
Vik Muniz is an internationally exhibited artist. His work is included in the collection of many major museums, including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Guggenheim Museum, New York, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museo de Arte Contemporanea, Prato, Italy, the Museo de Arte Moderna de Rio de Janiero, Brazil, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
During the month of May, Rena Bransten Gallery will present new photographic works by Vik Muniz from his Pictures of Colorseries.
Continuing his manipulation of images from popular culture and art history using unexpected materials, Muniz has produced a new body of work replicating Monet's paintings of haystacks. The images are created with pantone color chips that he arranges, photographs, and enlarges. The magnified color chips are like paint dabs or pixels that break up the forms into light and dark tones and are more easily identified from a distance or by squinting. Much of Muniz' work explores how we perceive visual information and how the brain processes the clues and relates them to recorded information. The first group of images from the Pictures of Color series was shown at the 2001 Venice Biennale and included reproductions of a Chuck Close portrait, a Rothko color field and a Van Gogh still-life.
Vik Muniz is an internationally exhibited artist. His work is included in the collection of many major museums, including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Guggenheim Museum, New York, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museo de Arte Contemporanea, Prato, Italy, the Museo de Arte Moderna de Rio de Janiero, Brazil, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.