"Who's Out There?" an Installation by TED VICTORIA's
+ paintings by GWENN THOMAS

TED VICTORIA's "Who's Out There?" is a room installation that consists of one image that goes through several transformations. The viewer is outside looking through a window into the interior of a house. Objects inside the house appear in slow-motion, and over a period of time are replaced by other objects. A narrative is created through the movement and interaction of the images. The viewer becomes a voyeur as the story unfolds in front of them.

This installation consists of ten projectors constructed by the artist, each containing an actual object (usually a miniature) that the viewer sees on the screen. These projectors are controlled by a dissolve unit that allows for a slow transition from one image to the next. Victoria uses a functioning clock in his installation to inform the viewer that the images are being projected "live" enabling the still-life to become real

Victoria's light systems are much like the camera obscura used in the past by Da Vinci and Vermeer except that the movement the viewer sees is actually happening inside the installation and in real time. Additionally, Ted Victoria doesn't use any formula or equation to achieve his images. It is done through "eye-balling" and/or trial and error. This enables the work to maintain a spontaneity that may otherwise be lost through the development of a mechanical system.


In the new eyewash "skylight area" GWENN THOMAS exhibits a suite of five recent 2-D works which are mediated by photography, uses as a surrogate means to produce "paintings." Like Lichtenstein's brushstrokes, they index earlier modes of abstraction through mechanical reproduction.