Chris Ashley is an

artist An artist is a person engaged in an activity related to creating art, practicing the arts, or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse refers to a practitioner in the visual arts only. However, th ...

who creates his work through the use of coding with simple instruction to create shapes, add colors and texture to his

painting Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and ...

s. Through the use of this new medium, he is able to create freedoms and use this freedom to diffuse and inject his artwork with new fresh meaning. His style is productive but his behavior is strongly

expressionist Expressionism is a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Northern Europe around the beginning of the 20th century. Its typical trait is to present the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it rad ...

. “Transparencies 2007” is a two-image work of art where Ashley displays the ability to use contrast to convey meaning. In “Cinematic Dataculture”, the shape of a

cake Cake is a flour confection made from flour, sugar, and other ingredients, and is usually baked. In their oldest forms, cakes were modifications of bread, but cakes now cover a wide range of preparations that can be simple or elaborate, ...

, the blue and soft pink layer floats between two areas of the

acrylic Acrylic may refer to: Chemicals and materials * Acrylic acid, the simplest acrylic compound * Acrylate polymer, a group of polymers (plastics) noted for transparency and elasticity * Acrylic resin, a group of related thermoplastic or thermosett ...

. The manner the blue color is applied gives it dimensions to curl throughout the structure. The leading purpose was to differentiate the horizontal edges of the four layers cake. The vertical pink bar drew the eye across the structure and it rounded out towards the durable edges. Because of its deliberate pixilation, this piece is assumed to have been man made. The geometrical piece is breathtaking, full of meaning, and well thought out.

References

Profile on Rhizome.org

Chris Ashley's official site
* http://artnews.org
Review of his 2007-08 show "I Made This for You" at KQED Arts
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