"Moving in Place Again"
Gallery 120 is featuring the wok of artist J. Michael Simpson's in an exhibition of paintings and drawings entitled "Moving in Place Again". The work explores the surface undulations of a nearby white-water river. Each work uses multiple images of the imperceptible riff and broil of a nearby river. These stop-action images were gleaned from one to two seconds video of the flow of the river and painted or drawn with acrylic and oil on canvas. The GPS and time stamp data noting when or where a work was video recorded is included in the titles or silkscreened on to the surface o...