The Way
It Looks
Discover 3D
Black Maria Gallery
Jack Arnold, Alfred
Hitchcock, Oskar Fischinger, Salvador Dali, Arch Oboler, Andre De Toth, some
artists have taken an interest. “Will not all this call for absolutely
new arts,” says Eisenstein, “unheard-of forms and dimensions
ranging far beyond the scope of the traditional?”
The quote is from
the curator’s new book, Stereoscopic Cinema and the Origins of 3-D
Film. Ray Zone has assembled unheard-of forms and dimensions and a lot of
other demonstrations of stereoscopic art.
Boris Starosta and Franklin Londin and
great analytic views of photographic space, Larry Ferguson defines the homey
nude. Perry Hoberman organizes the gallery storefront
window as anaglyphic forms, Claudia Kunin mounts the dramatic scene. Abe Fagenson
arranges color geometric notions and symbols, Terry Wilson makes photographic
objects. Levon Parian takes
a quiet view of perspective subtlety.
Heather Lowe’s
Ode to Riley has something like Bridget Riley’s recent color
rhomboid pictures on the left, a slight divergence in
the right panel shows underlying planes like geometric Kupka, the 3-D image is something
else again. Her “gag” paintings gloriously epitomize “laying an
egg” (Bad Joke), the silent comedy of Sisyphus (Uphill),
and the vaudeville surprise of confetti for rain from a bucket over a
broom-wielding clown showered with the title in colorful perspectival lettering
revealed in 3-D (What a Gag).
