Monolith
Monolith is a noncommissioned experimental work, playing with irregular pixel patterns. What happens when a screen has a nonuniform arrangement of pixels? How does this influence our perception of images and how much visual information do we even need to cross the border from abstract to figurative? Dealing with these questions, we have created a video sculpture, that aesthetically melts screen and content. In a play between natural beauty and technical disruption, images of classical busts transform cyclically into abstract gradients and turn again into perceptible images.

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SCULPTOR BARRY X. BALL CREATES UNSETTLING BUSTS AND PORTRAITS THAT REFERENCE CLASSICAL SCULPTURE. THEY ARE UNSETTLING BECAUSE HE CHOOSES MATERIALS (MEXICAN ONYX, LAPIS LAZULI, ITALIAN MARBLE, CALCITE) WITH CRACKS, FISSURES, AND IRREGULARITIES TO GIVE THE IMPRESSION OF DISFIGURED FACES, SKIN CONDITIONS, OR MEDICAL ANOMALIES.

New Age Demanded
“Inspired by classical Greek busts, Jon Rafman uses computer software to digitally render three-dimensional forms. The forms act as the structural surface on which two-dimensional Internet-sourced images are applied. The series is presented as large-scale archival pigment digital prints. Each print is created with its own specific texture and sculptural mutation. Rafman uses historically recognizable works from canonized artists like Mark Rothko, Georgia O’Keeffe, Piet Mondrian, and Wassily Kandinsky as the subjects of his appropriations.”

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Envy
Sculptor Barry X. Ball creates unsettling busts and portraits that reference classical sculpture. They are unsettling because he chooses materials (Mexican onyx, lapis lazuli, Italian marble, calcite) with cracks, fissures, and irregularities to give the impression of disfigured faces, skin conditions, or medical anomalies.

БАРРИ Х БОЛЛ
Sculptor Barry X. Ball creates unsettling busts and portraits that reference classical sculpture. They are unsettling because he chooses materials (Mexican onyx, lapis lazuli, Italian marble, calcite) with cracks, fissures, and irregularities to give the impression of disfigured faces, skin conditions, or medical anomalies.

БАРРИ Х БОЛЛ
SCULPTOR BARRY X. BALL CREATES UNSETTLING BUSTS AND PORTRAITS THAT REFERENCE CLASSICAL SCULPTURE. THEY ARE UNSETTLING BECAUSE HE CHOOSES MATERIALS (MEXICAN ONYX, LAPIS LAZULI, ITALIAN MARBLE, CALCITE) WITH CRACKS, FISSURES, AND IRREGULARITIES TO GIVE THE IMPRESSION OF DISFIGURED FACES, SKIN CONDITIONS, OR MEDICAL ANOMALIES.