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Gregory Kucera |
Gregory Kucera combines an art background with his technical skill in commercial video production to explore ideas about the ways in which our computerized, media-saturated world impacts how we see and experience it. Kucera intellectually and visually investigates qualities inherent in film and video – motion, perspective, duration, and simultaneity – in a variety of media including photography, painting, sculpture, and video installation. Eyeballer 6 is related to two other works, Line & Flight, a multi-channel video, and Temporal Relief: LA Extruded, Inverted, a polyurethane sculpture. The source of the imagery for all three of these pieces is an intersection in downtown Los Angeles. Kucera converted the colors, forms, and movement at the site into three distinct interpretations of that “information.”
The four channels of the video Line & Flight were shot facing north, south, east, and west with an exaggerated one-point perspective and from a point of view that alternates between that of a pedestrian standing in the middle of the intersection to that of someone flying through the same space upside down. The bas-reliefs on the sides of the cubic sculpture were carved from images of those same four views to physically embody the forms, space, and movement at the site. In the Eyeballer series, also based on the video views in Line and Flight, Kucera stretched and blurred fragments of the video to create a non-objective abstraction of the intersection, capturing time and motion in a static image. The series was made using the latest digital technology in a process has been recently named Ultrachrome. Eyeballer 6 is rear mounted to a special non-glare Plexiglas and backed with white Plexiglas stabilized by a custom fabricated aluminum frame. The use of high-tech methods and materials are integral to the work. As the artist explained: “The Eyeballer series utilizes very unique and highly researched techniques in order to “push” not only the technical capabilities of current day imaging, but ideally that of the eye itself.”
- Jennifer Bayles, Educator for Special Projects