October 24, 2011
Kate Raudenbush Experiments
 I like this site, but wish that I could see the artist's work offline for a few reasons ... |
Re: The Kate Raudenbush Experiments Site Pleasant viewing - or maybe not. Yet another opportunity to see contemporary art come of age - beautiful photography of elegant nonrepresentational sculpture made by Ms.Raudenbush, much of it seen at Burning Man, along with images of a few other places she's been. As we view these images, we run into one of the regrettable truths about posting images to the Internet - nothing is really ever really browser safe. What looked crisp and detailed and more than a little breathtaking on my computer looked washed out on my father's and almost devoid of detail, so if you're looking and wondering why I'm making a fuss, that might be why. The medium doesn't always do the artist justice, when the artist's work picks up a thousand subtle shades that come of the daylight as it filters through a transparent sculpture, or the faintly dusty desert air whose light gives these pieces the context which helps define them; would the sculpture you see to your left be the same piece were it bathed in the faint green light of an Indiana forest, instead of the blindingly yet strangely soft radiance of a summer afternoon on the Playa?The artist makes good progress on the challenge of conveying the different look and feel of her piece in what, for most viewers, will be an unfamiliar environment, only to run into the limitations imposed by inadequate standardization in what is, after all, supposed to be a communications technology - egotistically creative self-indulgence on the part of the software engineers developing the systems we use to view the Web coming at the expense of expressive freedom of the artists who, in this, they are supposed to be serving; where would painting be today if oils randomly changed colors when a painting was moved into another room or viewed from a different angle? At the very least, the art form would have been seriously and unnecessarily limited by the artist's lack of control over her medium, as digital art is often is, now. Good reason, perhaps, to see if Ms.Raudenbush has any upcoming showings of her photography, offline, where screen settings and the quirks of individual systems will not get between us and our enjoyment of her work. |
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