Lossy - Rachel Rossin
Rachel Rossin’s Lossy show at Zieher Smith & Horton gallery was comprised of intensely fractaling and interlinked paintings and VR works. In the paintings, warped bricolages and surreal remixes of virtual pop culture worlds (such as Grand Theft Auto) melt together. Painted in arcing, oddly hued, but deftly rendered oils, they return a profound strangeness to these digitally crafted places. Often the imagery doesn’t fit—almost seems to combat—the rigid rectangles of the canvas. By juxtaposing physical recreations of digitally fractured imagery, these shimmering works sit in an uncomfortable space between virtual and real, asking us to question our simplistic categorizations of materiality. The VR piece, I Came And Went As A Ghost Hand addresses this idea directly, disorienting the viewer with an assault of digital objects of all kinds, styles, and sizes, seemingly located within a facsimile of the artist’s studio.
Creator: Rachel Rossin
Link: http://rossin.co/
Connections:
Laurel Halo - Dust
Satoshi Kon - Paprika
Keita Takahashi - Katamari Damacy (Yes, it’s a game, but it’s too interesting to pass up in context with Rossin’s work!)