ANNE KATRINE SENSTAD
April 3 - May 31, 2019
Tuesday - Friday 11 am - 6 pm
Saturday by Appointment
info@sl.gallery
Tuesday - Friday 11 am - 6 pm
Saturday by Appointment
info@sl.gallery
Elements III
Neon light sculpture - immersive installation, 2019
The exhibition’s centerpiece, "Elements III" defines the environment as luminous blues that envelope the fabric of our cognitive body. Made up of monochromatic squares of light defined by an inner blue spectral vertical portal centered in the space, the viewer experiences the interior and exterior light sculptures, resonating through prismatic frequencies. The immersive quality offers the viewer a dialectic between center and horizon—the sculptural light composition enveloping us with a sense of the infinite. Senstad’s cosmology of spacetime and light beckons you to a matrix of horizontal and vertical expressions of blue light, evoking fractal topologies. In space, distance is the present—the horizon extending far beyond our frame of reference as blue columns of light ascend to the empyrean. Senstad’s interpretation of blue as physical environment is informed as much by the artist’s curiosity about the emotional, physiological, and scientific phenomena that constitute our concept of color as it serves her lifelong desire to capture the impossible beauty and sensorial properties of color in the abstract.
Beckoned to Blue
HD video, 18:32 min, 2019
Senstad’s sensory chamber installation represents the internal geography of the viewer’s physical self. Here, the installation brings the public into an architecturally reductive private chamber, echoing the internal - the physiological and psychological experience of the work. Playing on a 18:32 minute loop within the chamber, the video work, "Beckoned to Blue," travels through compositions in multiple hues of blue. The accompanying sound piece for the video, "The Well-Tuned Marimba" (1976), composed and performed by electronic sound pioneer and mathematician Catherine Christer Hennix, creates sparkling spatial sensations between the gravity of Hennix’s keyboard, sine-wave generator, and the Sheng - a traditional Chinese polyphonic reed instrument that merges Hennix’s ocular minimalist sound with the aural color spheres evident in the video.
I have broken the blue boundary of color limits, come out into the white;
beside me comrade-pilots swim in this infinity. I have established the
semaphore of Suprematism. I have beaten the lining of the colored sky,
torn it away and in the sack that formed itself, I have put color and knotted it.
Swim! The free white sea, infinity, lies before you.
Kasimir Malevich, Suprematism, 1919
Photographic Work
Included as part of the exhibition Beckoned to Blue, are
works from two bodies of work; Color Kinesthesia, 2012
and Universals Foldouts, 2013.
Senstad's photographic works examine the properties of light
and color in relation to time, spatial relations and volume.
Color Kinesthesia has previously been exhibited as part of
Senstad's exhibitions at Zhulong Gallery in Dallas, TX,
FineArt in Oslo, Norway, Airmattress Gallery, New York and
Octavia Art Gallery's spaces in both New Orleans and Houston.
Sizes: 50x60 inches and 30x40 inches.
Please contact info@sl.gallery for more info on these works.
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