{"id":35284,"date":"2017-12-22T09:56:09","date_gmt":"2017-12-22T14:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/?p=35284"},"modified":"2017-12-22T13:55:57","modified_gmt":"2017-12-22T18:55:57","slug":"blinn-lambert-new-grey-planet-microscope-opening-pix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/the-bomb\/2017\/12\/22\/blinn-lambert-new-grey-planet-microscope-opening-pix\/","title":{"rendered":"~BLINN & LAMBERT . . ‘NEW GREY PLANET’ \/ MICROSCOPE \/ OPENING PIX"},"content":{"rendered":"

DOE, a Deer . . . <\/p>\n

‘BLINN & LAMBERT: NEW GREY PLANET’
\nopened FRI DEC 15, 2017
\nthe show runs thru JAN 14, 2018
\nMICROSCOPE GALLERY<\/a>, 1329 WILLOUGHBY AVE 2B, BUSHWICK, BROOKLYN 11237
\nHRS: THURS-MON \/ 1-6 PM<\/p>\n

def, READ MORE: ‘BLINN & LAMBERT: NEW GREY PLANET’ – MICROSCOPE<\/a><\/p>\n

YES !! OPTICAL !!!
\nYES !! EXTREME OPTICAL !!!
\nYES !! EXTREME RADICAL OPTICAL LIGHT \/ W. RED & BLUE SEPARATION SENDING THINGS REALLY – DIS-ORIENTING !!!
\nYES !! SCI FI !!!
\nYES !! SPACE TRAVEL !!
\nYES !! 3D SURROUND \/ COLOR LIGHT SEPARATION !!! <\/p>\n

‘NEW GREY PLANET’ . . . left, EARTH FAR BEHIND.
\n& . . EVEN, SOME EARTHLINGS !!
\nWHO WERE UNABLE TO COPE, IN THE SPIRALING RED & BLUE LIGHT PULSING DARK, MYSELF INCLUDED.
\nEVERYONE WAS AFFECTED – TO VARYING DEGREES in the ALTERED SPACE \/ PRODUCTION. <\/p>\n

‘NEW GREY PLANET’ . . is a surreal, primal, technically surround \/ experience.
\nPhotos, whether still or video – are not going to capture that for you.
\nyou got to go see it.
\nit’s ‘playing’ up thru . . . SUN JAN 14, 2018.<\/strong><\/p>\n

PHOTOS FROM THE OPENING:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nBLINN & LAMBERT . . .
\naka NICHOLAS STEINDORF & KYLE WILLIAMS<\/p>\n

these 2 artist-scientists . .
\n“who met in the MFA Painting program at YALE joined as ‘BLINN & LAMBERT’ in 2016 to collaboratively expand<\/strong> their interests in OPTICAL media, special effects, digital projection, and computer animation – the latter of which is reflected in their name, which references two basic material surface options in a 3D animation software: reflective (Blinn) and matte (Lambert).”
\n~gallery <\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\n“In new sculptures, familiar objects of varying transparency<\/strong> and reflective qualities are illuminated<\/strong> by two projected streams<\/strong> of light – one red, one blue<\/strong> – which cast<\/strong> shadows on the gallery walls or ‘screen’ behind them to form a floating<\/strong> 3D imagery viewable with anaglyph<\/strong> cyan\/red glasses.
\nEach work instigates a dialog among the real objects, their shadows, and their virtual translations.”
\n~gallery<\/a><\/p>\n

*that is unless<\/em> you were biologically \/ hyper-sensitive to radical light \/ & became radically dis-oriented<\/strong> by extreme cyan-red color separation \/ & just plain old ‘motion sickness’ prone !! is the only way I can explain it. it was definite a spectrum . . of tolerance.
\nat the worst end of the spectrum, you just stumbled & tried not to tumble into the pieces or people in the pitch black room . .
\nthis constructed & manipulated environment was not navigational for all. <\/p>\n

*I later came to realize, that though I might<\/strong> have . . a super high functioning \/ hyper-tuned radar<\/strong> . . for art, and art conception per se . .
\ncoping with radically separated light projection – was not<\/strong> my thing.
\nthere’s radar, and then there’s radar, of all kinds of other frequencies, I guess.<\/p>\n

*at any rate, I definite fell at the extreme & failing end of the cyna\/red coping spectrum.
\nthe cyan-red separation had me color blind. motion sick. imperiled. fragile.
\nbut, maybe that’s also part of the plan \/ the point being to achieve dis-orientation to varying degrees within the audience.
\npeople were dis-oriented at different levels, but I know I was the worst, what a loser.
\n‘STRUGGLE’ . . was my mantra \/ damn you .. Blinn & Lambert !!<\/p>\n

*re: dis-orientation \/ artist-scientists . . jokers !!
\nBLINN & LAMBERT knew exactly what kind of chaos they were bringing down on their audience, just look at those two, grins from here to there.
\nnot to mention \/ space travel. and the 2 suns of ‘Solaris’.<\/p>\n

*re: floating, lol: STUDIO GHIBLI – was !! part of the dialog !!
\nas in . . Floating castles, etc etc. <\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nBLINN & LAMBERT, ‘Untitled (Broom, Out)’, 2017.
\nfound glass objects, mylar sculptures, styrofoam sculptures, rubber ball, tennis racquet, drawing on glass, fabric, magnifying glass, glass table, steel legs, two video projectors. 82 x 80 x 84 in.<\/p>\n

“The works in ‘New Grey Planet’ are situated within a loose fictional<\/strong> narrative concerning a space station<\/strong> \/ orbiting a newly discovered planet with two suns<\/strong> – one red<\/em>, one blue<\/em> – and the recreation room in which free-floating objects ‘from home’ can be found” . . inspired most overtly by . . . “Stanislaw Lem’s book Solaris<\/em>.”<\/p>\n

*I’m thinking . . they should have had<\/strong> text excerpts, such as these – put up on the walls, before one entered, you know like they do – in museums.
\nor as hand-outs.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nat any rate, moving through the gorgeous \/ large, pitch black room, one definite had the intuitive sense, that something . . sci fi \/ was going down.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nit was elegant, trippy.
\nreal objects. fictional space.
\nkind of Jack Goldstein meets Chaim Steinbach and does a double take into . . Futurama.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nthere were also smaller ‘elements’ placed in front of the larger sculpture \/ ‘diarama’ units, which contributed to the spatial dis-orientation \/ peripheral vision \/ color separation challenge.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nwhile, on one long wall . . a rushing \/ swirling, nature-referencing ‘video’ – further contributed to the spatial dis-construct !!<\/p>\n

BLINN & LAMBERT, ‘Doe, a Deer’, 2017.
\nHD single-channel stereoscopic<\/strong> 3D video, silent \/ 4 minutes 4 seconds
\nedition of 3 + 2 APs
\n(price upon request \/ as with all the other sculptures)<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nthis loop – was like: here, space trippers, are your biosphere memories<\/em> of life on earth, fast forward.
\ndon’t blink.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nit was also an interesting dynamic – to see how the audience became active ‘players’ in the artificial light charade. moving . . random bio ‘parts’ \/ within the hyper-constructed Blinn & Lambert . . . drama of an artificial environment. classic black \/ cut-out craft-type silhouettes.
\nsuper diy \/ & in real time.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\na school of fish ?
\na torrent of leaves ?<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nyou begin to pick up . . on the deer head.
\na beautiful metaphor, it starts off so enchantingly . . . abstract <\/em>!!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\n‘Doe, a Deer’.
\nI kind of felt like a deer, in that environment of radical optical separated light.
\nvery fragile.
\nI know other people were stunned . . too.
\ndifferent degrees of light tolerance \/ different degrees of . . separation.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nTHEO, and HELENE !!
\na little bit rocky, but not – nowhere as overwhelmed as I was.
\nI was seriously – impaired.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nJOHN SZLASA and EMMY THELANDER . . were laughing !!
\nI guess they move up to the front of line, for prospective space travelers . .
\nto interstellar planets . . who can cope. with two suns !!
\none red, one blue.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nand, yeah that was <\/em>a ‘cheat’ shot – with the camera flash engaged.
\ncan’t leave . . . ‘NEW GREY PLANET’ in limbo like that !!
\nit was . . a red and blue \/ far-out, WORLD !! for sure !!<\/p>\n

PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

DOE, a Deer . . . ‘BLINN & LAMBERT: NEW GREY PLANET’ opened FRI DEC 15, 2017 the show runs thru JAN 14, 2018 MICROSCOPE GALLERY, 1329 WILLOUGHBY AVE 2B, BUSHWICK, BROOKLYN 11237 HRS: THURS-MON \/ 1-6 PM def, READ MORE: ‘BLINN & LAMBERT: NEW GREY PLANET’ – MICROSCOPE YES !! OPTICAL !!! YES !! […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35284"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35284"}],"version-history":[{"count":34,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35337,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35284\/revisions\/35337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}