However the sites accessed through computers located in the darkened gallery offer much more than novelty. You can take advantage of the cable connection speed in the gallery to follow the sites in their layered meanders. Even without broadband, this is an introduction to the future of this artform. Full of history, color, invention, and sociological awareness, this huge, must-see exhibit achieves a difficult balance between presenting art that is worth seeing for its own sake as well as for what it says about the place it comes from. Monique Prieto 's abstract paintings dance and sing.
Flat color is applied to raw canvas creating an intertwining of shape and color.
Prieto plans her compositions on a computer and then transfers them to canvas. Sometimes her compositions are so sparse that they contain only a few drops of ink or faint hints of color on a field of negative space. Experimentation, chance, and accident play a large role in the process of her search for the ultimate aesthetic statement. In Koetsu's Memory for example, the paper is covered with irregular blots of ink applied to wet paper. Christopher Pate is a Los Angeles artist who seems to reinvent his work for every exhibition.