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Edwin VanGorder
Works in Madison, Wisconsin United States of America

BIO
VanGorder's work has been exhibited in group and solo show accross the US including Sonia Zaks Gallery in Chicago, The State Administration building for the Wisconsin Arts Board, the Pauahi Gallery in Hawaii, Oakwood Nursing Home in Madison,Gwathmey/Siegel architects in NY, OK Harris graduate show for Parsons and 2 successive group shows at Parsons after graduation
Vans work begins with brush drawings photographed in near environments then integrated to the computer using the scrolling theme shared between a a drawing improvisation out of Asian timber framing and computer generative process.
The works often have a source in book art which can be found at the link on resume. The www.drawingontrope.com site for his works contains more imagery and text in the blog section.
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zu tauschen den Schutzhund at PPOW and REFERENCE Art Gallery


As quickly as I was bewildered everything fell into place , the show has an aha quality that is also provocative. The Detail alien has a resonance for me in relaying both the topography of computer building that is more than formal and relating also something of the homoerotic otherness of Donatellos outreach that finds its other in art as love in the clime of its time and is currently as terestial as ever while the Iphonomene Specific Object wasnt bad either ( I don't think) The Breeding of drawings showcases the strangenes by which the Queens collection made diplomatic channels upon Ingres shore and again, there you are.
The nice thing about our time is a show like this creates a kind of personal nicety in its overall gesture in the age of mechanical aporia while the specific art does manage to emerge however unpredictably in hyper elastic contexts.

DISCUSSION

PARTY FOOD (2006-Ongoing) - Joseph Gillette


I enjoyed the very complex topography of the work which begins at the end, contrasting movement as motion and movement as entirely within a static object.In the rest of the work the state of information context was dramatically more interesting than a "thematic " approach. The inevitable contrast of edge to center information network was interestingly relayed in contrasting centers in motion generating a still via spatial consequence, and centers stable surrounded by inquisitive space, all of which dialectic subsumes to variable release to new states of mind and place.

DISCUSSION

Rethinking Curating: Art After New Media


The review in its sympathy for history according to multi textual resourcefullness finds , implicitly restates, the traditional openendedness that is this approaches decisive signature. But it has been upon me for some time to wonder...whether the successfull deconstructing away of the idea of "essential" constructions as being only quasi informed does not in turn perhaps yield a question as to the origins of intuition. I am not convinced by the wake and trough of activity that surround the opening of this book according to the reviewers take intuition and by this I mean the older perceptions of wholenesss accruing within perception of perception have not become confused and tangled threads of critical editing of approach modes


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Adze Quarry Basin


  Has the feeling of the Hawaiian Adze Quarry on Mauna Kea…prodigious chips flaked  and half formed stone  adzes , local culture children given Asian puzzle balls- interlocking units used in ancient carpentry to build without nails… the ideas combine in the abstract loop I insert into the cyber sleeve and a reflection as well on Holymeaumeau- crater dug by meteorite below the slopes of the volcanic craters, the moon itself most likely the carved out mass extracted from the Pacific Basin…


I Am Not a Burial Mound


Given the apples you did not eat may not have been mine nor any of them  belong yet to any entity but knock around the art of old New York this is a monument for Little Italy where it no longer exists Our Lady Of Pompeii must practice patience for the moment to moment… Sincerely  Yours: Outline Of An Apple…


Suspension Matrix of Visual Psychology Colloids


The gaze is never really locked into the surface- rather it spends a fair amount of time suspended between the vectors of intuitions that incorporate visual focus and scan to bodily orientation and spatial dynamic trinamic or kin. The material, fluid, gas dispersion of particles in physics of elemental situation is complicated in cyber space to a spectrum domain where visuality arrives through the sleeve of scroll space queue that no longer is really a surface upon arrival but rather a matrix of electric cells.

Ther-e fore the tiling I use are actually pictures condensed and represent a symbolizing process of  the number of times the gaze “carries” And what does it carry? What is in the package?


What Happens to a Mirror In a Rhizome Structure?


  Description: The work states surface tension by caontrasting an embossing functon with the “live” field which states to the “button” edges.

Abstract: the embossed field as a quotation of printing creates a mirror, and a rotating mirror as well. These element in so contrasting place events to a devolving of mirror to mirror that reprsents the intuitive dynamics the idea of rhizome symbolizes in and of itself.

 


How Does Recreation State Within Rhizome?


Description: The work introduces interruption within the button field that separates looping elements through a variety of means that include distortion, marking, color, cantilever and offset.

Abstract: The iidea of the work is to keep finding different angles to the idea of a loop.  iN general a rhizome is a state that can be reproduced in terms linking abstraction to human activity as recreational including the famous rules of the game of formalism. The non material status of rhizome makes game rules a different mode however, because it is generally a state of overwriting…


What are Marked and Unmarked Forms in a Rhizome Status?


Description: The drawing appears replete with marking and leaves open space and button bevels to reflect in grey and whit on the eventsof marking across the spectrum.  Some forms are drawing with a haptic touch others are consequential to misusing a border device to essentially draw with…

Abstract: This is an example of cyber “logic , the use of a non-marking software to excavate a path is a non marking, while the use of distortion upon drawing elements subtract the element of original intent.  Marking thus both exists as such, but also has a kind of reverse mirror.

 


What Happens to Formalism and Rules of the Game In Rhizome World of Nomadic Nomads?


Description: The work plays with kinetic sculpture feeling by placing transparent and opaque maninulations of matrix elements in the virtual sculpture realm of the computer button.  The forms have a compression of pattern and a haptic drawing sensibility combined to generate a contradictory field to sorting.

Abstract: The early ideas of building sculpture oan a skeleton that opens up that frame to an environment of transparency depends on a material comparison of form to  form as evidenced in early kinetic environment artists like Jesus Soto or Nicholas Scjhopffer.  Howecer in this drawing those ideas meet the contradictory reality of cyber space in which the object becomes its own subject an subjec its own object to afford then the relief elements of a moment to moment realization to metamorphosis and meta levels simultaneously.


Can Rhizome Structure Afford “Site/Non Site ?


Description : The computer button is offsetby sriping ( and in fact also created by it)  while the  color space in relation to stripes  offsets line and mass as mirrored in  haptic drawing function shown in a very minor key.

Abstract: The Site/Non Sit idea of Smithson invites a reevaluation of how formalism functions in cyber art: is it the same?  My feeling ti that the meta levels of the computer art work are embedded to zones rather than sites , but have  a comparable sense of intersting psychic distance.  owever the distance also from physicality posits space itself to metamorphosis within means.  This Deleuzian idea as it encounters information theory alters the original sense of visual psychology to a transformative neurological model of bodily presence within the encompassing visual continuum which as Gustav Metzger said means ” the artist’s entire viual field becomes the work of art”,


Are Labyrinth and Rhizome Immiscible?


Description: The work is like a pot thrown before one’s eyes as pulled, evidently through the sleeve and furl that forms the scroll space and queue of cyber reality meta links of perceptual wholes and fragments.

Abstract: A labyrinth has origin and exit, while a rhizome is a manifold in which measurements can be performed but as a whole is too complex, embedded and enfolded to extricate such flows to origins and ends. Yet the idea of a queue in computer science allows a loop to state a linear thread and therfore a labyrinth  in rhizome topographical terms as the psychology of vision creates clover leaf connection of experience into manifold that are like the neuralogical model of multiple sites linking cortical integration and meta levels from a non centralized gathering.


Is There a Mechancis to Psychology of Vision Connecting Rhizome to Rhizome?


Description: the work uses the computer tradition of tiling which is a “rhizome” version of pattern: that is to say it is map like but folds into a multitude of references within that destroy the probability of a pattern block.

Abstract: It i s a tiling melded to the computer “button” which resists surface tension and is  transformative to its own inner ambiguity because formed from within what appears a surface,  but is not. The visuality that surrounds the event has proposed it from a state recognising parts  while intuiting the whole visual field.