You are here

Math and music make one-of-a-kind digital portraits at LA's stARTup Art Fair

Country:

City:

Categories:

Exhibition Type:

Date: 
Friday, 15 February 2019 to Sunday, 17 February 2019
Opening: 
Friday, 15 February 2019 - 7:00pm to 10:00pm

A self-described high school "math geek", Karen Hochman Brown chose to study art and has managed to merge her two passions into masterful digital creations of startling power and beauty. 

Los Angeles artist Karen Hochman Brown has married the flexibility of art and the precision of mathematics into a virtually unlimited paintbox. Hochman Brown will be premiering brand new work at the stARTup Art Fair, running February 15th to 17th at The Kinney Venice Beach. 

Hochman Brown turns portraits of people into synthesized pieces of visual music. Based on the model of the sound synthesizer, she creates custom brushes that play upon the photograph’s visual information in the same way that a synthesizer plays a riff of music. The computer assists the drawing process, generating brushstrokes that change based on color, shape, texture, luminance and other information found in the photo file, changes that include anything from the angel the stroke is applies to the actual structure of the brush. Her portraits are lively and colorful variations on the subject’s visage.

These inspiring works expand the boundaries of new media and technology-driven art with their lush and evocative depictions.
 

Artist ( Description ): 

Karen Hochman Brown received her B.A. in Art from Pitzer College, has continued to study math, and did post-graduate work at California College of the Arts and Crafts where her Master’s thesis introduced Construction Geometry via Art, a Junior High School curriculum she taught at Pasadena Waldorf School. She continued to study the interconnections of math and art via technology at UCLA studying graphic design in late-nineties. Her work has been widely exhibited in California and the United States.  
 

Venue ( Address ): 

737 West Washington Blvd
Venice, CA 90292

Shoebox PR , Los Angeles

Other events from Shoebox PR

view
Célia Rocha | As Pure As Fresh Snow
01/28/2023 to 02/27/2023
view
Shoebox Projects Presents: Making the Cut, Curated by Kristine Schomaker
01/22/2023 to 02/17/2023
view
Malka Nedivi
12/04/2022
view
Malka Nedivi | Transcending Matter
11/13/2022 to 12/11/2022

Pages

 

Related Shows This Week

view
"Ethereal Legacy: The Art of Fahren Feingold" A Retrospective Solo Exhibit Presented by The Untitled Space
05/11/2024 to 05/31/2024
view
Tomas Watson: Transitions
03/06/2024 to 05/24/2024
view
Natalia Irina Roman: in∙ner transit | Art installation reimagining the everyday experience of commuting
04/12/2024 to 06/20/2024
view
Evgeniya Golik "Esoterica"
05/04/2024 to 06/30/2024
view
"Joanna Pilarczyk: My Paradise" Solo Exhibition Presented By The Untitled Space
05/02/2024 to 05/31/2024
view
Best Software Training Institute In Chennai
03/29/2023 to 03/31/2026
view
Aspects of Appearance: Portraits from the Collection in Context
02/25/2024 to 06/30/2024
view
Jackie Battenfield and Margot Glass - Happiest with Blossoms Above My Head and Flowers Around My Feet
05/18/2024 to 06/30/2024

Pages