Anne Vieux | Repeat/Loop/Return

Spring/Break Art Show | March 2-7, 2016

ANNE VIEUX

Repeat/Loop/Return

Spring/Break Art Show, New York

March 2-7, 2016

"In a slurry of conceptual fragments and gestures, my interests in abstraction, the screen, and zoning out, tie my practice together. Conceptually my work plays off painting constructs, resulting in sculpture, video, painting, and books. Screensavers, after-images, eye floaters, minimalism, and optics, influence my visual language, drifting from swirly to gridded and modular.”

- Anne Vieux

Cuevas Tilleard wishes to exhibit Repeat/Loop/Return, a solo presentation of painting, video, and sculpture by Brooklyn based artist Anne Vieux. Across multiple mediums, Vieux consistently references the way digital modes blur and distort information in an unending cycle. The idea of the reproduction versus the original, is integral in her imagery and process. Images are duplicated, layered, and printed, creating a unique final image. The original source is unscalable and lost. She delights in the slips of scale and materiality that happen when translating between media – a digital game of telephone that occurs over repeated rounds of ⌘Copy and⌘Paste.

Working with light as an effect, process, and image, Vieux’s works crystalize into being. Abstract fields are created from both physical and digital ways of working, putting emphasis on a digital materiality. Her abstractions – with hidden sources in a multitude of reflective materials – are translated through her selected media, taking the best from each.

In her paintings, the historical reading of painting, as a window, mirror, or frame, is subverted and inverted. Photographed, scanned, and composed digitally, and printed on faux suede, they vibrate between the flat and dimensional. The seriality and duplicity of images, suggests the infinite and subjective. Geometric shapes are layered with acrylic paint on to the surface of organic fields, sharply defining the boundaries of the surface and support. The artist’s hand, the original, is all but lost in Vieux’s approach.

Anne Vieux further explores this endlessness in her videos. Created with the digital files of the paintings she continues to repeat and layer images on one surface – now screen.

In her video works, Vieux reverses her process. However, not simply thinking in ⌘Z – she continues to push the translation. Slips and glitches are celebrated as the physical becomes digital again. Initially painterly, their animation now requires different expectations of the viewer.

Vieux’s sculptures reflect on a conversation around image and object. Imagery from her paintings is used to create rectangular forms from lenticular prints. The images within the sculptures move as the viewer moves around them, almost as an analogue animation.

In all bodies of work, the metaphor of the screen persists throughout the imagery, whether the work lives on the screen or within the boundaries of frame on the wall. Offline and on, Vieux plays on the infinite, the loop, the exchange of light in form.