Elke Pessl
Artist Statement
My artistic practice taps into human kind’s unbridled drive towards scientific discovery and knowledge of the physical world. The work serves as a visualization of how we confront the impact of technology on our understanding of material as well as immaterial space in an age where rovers traverse the surface of neighboring planets and radio telescopes capture signals billions of light-years away, leading to discoveries of new galaxies. With emphasis on structure and luminosity, the visualizations strive to give definition to something that is otherwise invisible, a frontier landscape only recently mapped or a phenomenon at the edge of our comprehension. Forms found in contemporary architecture, the sciences, and the mechanical world are captured with camera-less photography, supplying the inherent logic for the work. Their residual traces combined with diagrammatic vocabulary provide a tension between the intangible and the quantifiable.
Biography
Elke Pessl is a mixed media artist working in abstract photography, drawing, printmaking, and digital methods. She has exhibited at venues such as Gopalan Contemporary Art, GoggleWorks Center for the Arts, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Columbia College Chicago, Richmond International Airport, and the Scuola Internazionale di Grafica in Venice, Italy. She earned a BA from Wesleyan University and an MFA from Indiana University. Her awards include an Individual Artist Grant from the Indiana Art Commission and the Clowes Fellowship for a residency at the Vermont Studio Center. She currently lives and works in Bloomington, IN.
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