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Pat O'Neill, an eminent Los Angeles-based artist and filmmaker, has been creating remarkably beautiful, technically virtuosic films since the early 1960's. His work has been exhibited in major institutions such as The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, The Centre Pompidou, Paris, The Tate Modern, London, and a retrospective organized at The Santa Monica Museum of Art. For his upcoming exhibition at The Rosamund Felsen Gallery, O’Neill presents two video projections incorporating multifarious sculptures. In the piece titled Wooden You a projected image animates the wall upon which an assemblage has been mounted at eye level principally dominated by a pair of wooden clogs. The soles of the shoes initially open into the apparition of a monitor, which in time, reveals itself as a window into another space dominated by another projection and another sculptural object. These pieces demonstrate a rethinking of the passive experience of viewing film by predicating the "layers of meaning" as physical entities. In these films there is no beginning or end, no actors and no language; the present time potentiates variables in a viewer's practice of perception. |
