Join us for our first show, an exhibition of work from Austin based artist, Dylan Reece.

Show Statement:

Dylan Reece’s current exhibition, “Luminous Visions” will feature a video projection and 2D work related to the video through stills, collage and digital prints.

Dylan will be showing a video work called “Luminous Livingston Seagull.” It is a mash-up of the 1973 film, based of the book, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, and a 1998 computer generated psychedelic video called Luminous Visions. The two films are superimposed and allowed to run without any additional editing or manipulation. Through this one simple device, many surprising alignments and potentially meaningful synchronicities unfold, calling into question the role of chance as a neutral artistic device and highlighting the absurdities inherent to both films.

About Dylan Reece

Dylan Reece was born in in Garland, Texas in 1982. He received a B.F.A. in Design from the University of Texas at Austin in 2005. He has recently exhibited work at MASS Gallery, UT Dallas CentralTrak, Okay Mountain Project Space, The Creative Research Laboratory, LMNL Gallery, The Austin Museum of Digital Art, and the Helen Day Art Center in Vermont.

Dylan’s Artist Statement

Dylan Reece’s work employs a variety of media — prints, photography, painting, animated GIFs, and sculpture — to juxtapose appropriated imagery that alludes to a historical questioning of progressive cultural periods. Drawing from a range of sources, including the pop-metaphysics of the ’70s, the classical art of Greece and Rome, the internet, vintage nature books, rave culture, and Modernism in art, the imagery for much of the work is informed by the ambitions and failures of once progressive cultural movements and an underlying sense of social progress gone awry. In a world characterized by ever increasing flows of information and rapid change in complexity of social systems and cultural dynamics, his work looks to past failures to find strategies on how the same outcomes might be thwarted in the digital age.