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Pixel Perfect, is a fascinating exhibition of digital artwork by artists who push the boundaries into unexplored realms of expression. The latest technology is often combined with traditional mediums to express a unique and enchanting body of work. This year's Pixel Perfect exhibition provides a riveting experience for audiences, bringing together talented digital artists from around the world with exceptional talent and visions of altered states of reality.
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Vlatko Ceric
 
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This is a new millennium, a new age, one in which Art need no longer do battle with Science. Instead of existing in opposition, a beautiful synthesis between the two can be achieved. This lesson is perhaps taught best by Vlatko Ceric, who has blended the science of mathematics with artistic expression using specially self developed software that utilizes algorithms to transform idea into image.
Born in Zagreb, Croatia, Vlatko Ceric trained as a scientist working in the field of computer modeling and simulation, and today is a full professor of Informatics at the University of Zagreb. Vlatko first began producing images via computer in the 1970's, making use of the relatively primitive technology of printed symbols to create strikingly beautiful, yet orderly images that soon came to be in high demand. Through many years experimenting with images and image manipulation, Vlatko's works have reached new heights, and have been exhibited across the globe. There is a spirit in the machine, and Vlatko Ceric has freed it.
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"Spectral Variations 6"
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"Spectral Vriations 5"
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Marco Eychenne
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Marco Eychenne, born in Lyon, France, was a cartoonist by age 8 and a publicity poster producer (for his actor father) a few years later. He later spent over 10 years in Paris, a city that has had a profound impact on his art. Mr. Eychenne refers to himself as a “human sponge” - diverse influences such as French hip-hop, Japanese movies, landscaping and bonsai can be detected in his work, where beauty isn’t just skin deep. Marco Eychenne’s style radiates sensuality, intrigue, delicacy, and symbolism. He wishes his art to engage one’s eyes and to agitate one’s mind. Mr. Eychenne utilizes photography as the raw material for a unique technological graphic process. His digital collages are the result of a journey that begins with his imagination and ends with a contribution to a changing world.
Marco Eychenne received a Master of Fine Arts from the National Superior School of Decorative Arts in Paris, and currently lives in Sydney, Australia. He has provided campaigns for Fujitsu and Volkswagen, and Mr. Eychenne’s designs have been commissioned by various French performing artists.
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"Jungle Ghost"
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"Enfant Africain (African Child)"
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Martin Fox
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The subconscious and the surreal, the dance of what might be, and of what lurks in the depths of the mind. These are the territories that Martin Fox travels through when he creates his works. Using a variety of media, Martin imparts through his images a sense of emotion and feeling that is belied by the outwardly abstract appearance of the works themselves.
As a child, Martin spent much time wandering the great rooms and halls of New York's museums and galleries. These experiences left with him a lasting passion for art, one that has survived through a life full of artistic and practical obstacles to be presented to viewers in his works. Martin posses a Masters in Arts, has lectured in the field,and has also served as an art director for more than a decade.
Not merely pretty pieces to enjoy, Martins pieces cause the mind to work on them, with them, as the viewer discovers their own meaning within the subtle nuances of shadows and light.
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"Visions of the Dance in Blue"
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"The Individual Dream"
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Warren Friedman
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Warren Friedman incorporates the social realism of his street photography into surreal montages. Against a neutral, but symbolic background, he experiments with a wholly unconventional arrangement of visual elements, juxtaposing images with abstract graphical elements. His goal is to "reach beyond the single image and express, in a new way, the narrative impulse that motivates much of my work." Yet while embracing technological innovations, he has not lost touch with the importance of presenting images of ordinary people and daily life.
Inspired by photographers and photojournalists like Cartier-Bresson, Robert Frank, Dorothea Lange and Eugene Smith, Friedman is also strongly influenced by decades of involvement in movements for peace and justice. This mix of artistic innovation, personal history and commitment to social change informs Friedman's work and inspires him to focus on and assert the value of the individual
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"Untitled (Broken Symmetry #1)"
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"Untitled (Broken Symmetry #4)"
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Jasmin Hunter
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Beauty lies in every atom, yet these human eyes are so limited in their perception. We see only the surface of things, yet with delicate skill and infinite care, even the weightless light can be teased from its hiding place and revealed in a new glory. This is the work of Jasmin Hunter. With a passion for photography and nature, Jasmin Hunter has taken the science of imaging and developed it to an art form. Born in Port Jefferson, New York, she discovered photography as a child, and in her subsequent training as a Microbiologist, she found the mystique of electron microscopy. Combined with her skill, these two sciences and art forms create photographs that gift the viewer once in a lifetime views of the world.
Light. We bathe in it daily, sometimes taking the luminosity of the world for granted. Jasmin brings new light to the lives of her viewers with images that remind us that the world we each live and breathe in is art itself
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"Hollywood Blv."
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"Abstract Light"
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Keith Kovach
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Keith Kovach creates digital prints that peel away and tear apart social convention and delineated artistic genres alike. He creates images of nature and the human body which mirror the decomposition of form. His women metamorphose into thick-scaled reptiles; his faces crack into assemblages of skin and shards. The viewer is implicated and asked to contend with notions of struggle and transition because the evocative works depict luminal moments of irreversible transformative processes. Because these changes are violently imposed upon the human body and familiar elements of nature, the viewer must put aside complex feelings of discomfort and reflect on the underlying challenges of Kovach's representation. Revealing a remarkable mastery of digital manipulation, these works not only offer visual examples of Jacques Derrida's meditations on Deconstruction but function as cultural criticism in and of themselves.
In 1986 Keith Kovach received his M.F.A. from the University of South Florida. Working as a free-lance artist for over ten years, he has specialized in multimedia development, animation, and commercial photography. A senior Fulbright Scholar in Media Studies, Keith Kovach has taught at the University of Central Florida, the National University of Fine Arts in Bucharest, Romania, and at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI).
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"WhiteOnWhite"
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"Surprised"
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Massimiliano Lattanzi
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I see my artwork as a whisper in a loud crowd, which can reach its full meaning only when it is carefully heard. That whisper, in the end, makes the observer feel significant, precious and unique. I find it important that my art calls the observer not to remain passive but to interact with the work itself. Through my artwork, I try hard to reach that level of universality that allows speaking to everybody, obviously not saying the same thing to each observer, but certainly saying something very personal and intimate, thus, important to everyone.
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"Athmos #06"
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"Istos #07"
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Robert Leach
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Jubilation and introspection mark the fantastic paintings of Robert Leach. His painterly works, employing a brilliant color palette, feature the street scenes, landscapes, and people that engendered his creative life. Leach began painting in 1978 at the age of 45, with a range of experiences already blooming and coming to life in his mind. In explaining his creative impetus Leach states that he would like his paintings to "open the minds of all people to the beauty of human nature." Leach’s paintings are alive with the people and energy of New York City and flow together seamlessly with his love of the natural world.
His success as an artist was as instantaneous as his immersion in the visual arts. His first one-man show in Harlem sold every piece, and provided him with portrait commissions in addition to local acclaim.
Leach is also deeply involved in educational and humanitarian work, such as Art Without Borders and Habitat for Humanity. Robert Leach lives and works in New York.
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"Man with Yellow Hat"
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"Old San Juan"
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Angelina McCormick
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Art depends on contradictions. It lives in our responses, in our interpretations and in our understanding. My photographic practice captures the beauty of the world around me through my lens. Sometimes I intend to create beauty, sometimes the mere act of creation is sufficient motivation. In transferring the images from reality to film, I negotiate my inner conflicts and emotions. Although my photographs portray external subjects, they always originate within my spirit, existing as concrete representations of my interior thoughts. I am present in my work, which is in turn an integral part of my nature and my being.
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"Gerbera Daisy No.1"
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"Rose No.1"
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Jere Newton Jr.
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Jere Newton Jr’s hypnotic swirls of color propel you toward a higher consciousness. With a belief that “Art is our poetry on how we see life,” he forgoes traditional depictions for more abstract renderings that verge on the emotional and spiritual. His work enables you to break free from the obvious to perceive things in a new light. Using mixed media and a computer, he stretches hermit crabs, Orcas, cats, and crowds of people beyond their normal shapes and sizes. Nevertheless, his digital photography takes on a painterly quality from his long, broad sweeps of blues, purples, and blacks. Says the Mississippi-based artist: “Art is a mystic realm, and is related to God, I take no credit for my art, I’m essentially a channel, and some times I’m astonished at how my art turned out, and say my God did I do that?”
The centripetal motion inherent in his work resonates with the artist’s personal belief in eternity being a continuous flow from life. He says that artists never die: “They just paint away into the next life.”
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"Orca"
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"Waiting"
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NOAH G POP
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Digital art has become the voice of a new generation. Noah Greenspan - aka “NOAH G POP” - constantly reinvents and redefines the limits of this burgeoning art form with his unique fusion of digital photography, pop expressionism and the finesse of past masters creating true manifestations of endless possibilities.
A Brooklyn native, Noah is much more than a talented artist. Trained as a cardiovascular and pulmonary specialist, his works reflect a lifetime of schooling, meticulous attention to detail and a wholly unique perspective on the heart, mind and soul. From his first look through the lens, Noah seeks the true essence of his subject. For him, the medium is much more than the mere message. Instead, the medium is a catalyst that heightens and transforms the message in magnificent and imaginative new dimensions. Stunning, innovative and incomparable, Noah's works are vigorously sought after…so, come view his art and find a new reality in today’s continually-evolving cyber-age.
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"Bliss"
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"Shakti"
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Scott C. Taft
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What a gift is it to be able to look at life once more with the eyes of a child, seeing it unfold in new glory with surreal and vibrant colors that fire the imagination and call the soul. Scott C. Taft is a master of the art of photo impressionism, a form where raw photographs are taken and enhanced with digital technology to create stunning works of art. Since early childhood, Scott had a passion for photography, beginning with his mother's Kodak Brownie Hawkeye when he was just in the third grade. He later received his BFA, and in the course of his studies discovered his primary influences in Impressionism and Fauvism.
Scott's pictures blur the line between art and photography, between fantasy and reality. Color is the key to his work, the tool with which he draws the sublime from the mundane. Scott's art is emotion perfectly balanced with finely honed technique, and his works are a delight to the eye, mind, and spirit.
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"Autumn Series 1"
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"Autumn Series 2"
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Taro Uesugi
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With floral-inspired icons, geometric shapes, and futuristic symmetry, Taro Uesugi's digital psychedelia melds cutting-edge technology and traditional Japanese design. He creates virtual collages, slicing up familiar, contemporary textures like stripes, dots, and numbers, and composes strong visual lines of squares or triangles. He also creates futuristic spectrum waves, with cubes floating on a matrix of dots, blinding starlight, and deep blue waves.
In addition to the unique technological skill apparent in his work, the wide range of styles through which Taro Uesugi engages us reflects his sensitivity to the artistic traditions of the past. To view Taro Uesugi's art is to rediscover op-art, abstraction, and the organic shapes of Japanese nature images. He makes use of these traditions to serve his unique vision, one attuned to popular, contemporary styles as well as the foundations of his cultural history.
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"06"
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"Pyramid"
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