For immediate release

Art Meets Technology at the Jameson Modern

Contact: Wes LaFountain, Gallery Director - 207.772.5522

Portland, ME, September 28, 2007 – Responding to the high level of public interest inspired by the Maine Center for Creativity’s recent digital video art project on the FPL Energy power plant, Portland-based gallery Jameson Modern hosts a solo exhibition of new work by artist and University of Maine professor Raphael Di Luzio. This show, entitled The Eye in Time, opens on Friday, October 12, with a public reception from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m.

The artist’s work will combine traditional art concepts with an advanced use of technology. His work will be presented on 11 Mac Mini’s, 4 Apple TV’s, Apple HD Cinema displays and high-definition large format LCD’s plus two plasma screens. This new media exhibition focuses on what the artist has labeled “time-based paintings” – digital imagery that is captured and combined in montage, or collage; in superimposed images, or layers; and in variable speeds. These paintings use all of the elements that we are familiar with in traditional painting: color, shape, texture, rhythm, and so forth, and yet – they are moving images, contained within the frame of the picture plane, and imbued with the power to move. In fact one of his video pieces, about global warming, will be projected onto a block of ice during the opening evening. These visual images have to be seen to be believed.

This Jameson Modern exhibition represents a continuation of the Maine Center for Creativity’s arts-and-industry collaboration with artist and professor Di Luzio in their groundbreaking public art performance Light House, a one-hour multi-media event held on August 26. For that project, the artist projected and manipulated live digital video images 57 feet tall on the façade of the FPL power plant building on Cousins Island, while original music for the event was broadcast on local radio WCLZ. For those who did not have an opportunity to witness it then, as well as those who may have seen it first-hand, a documentary from the event is included in this exhibition, as well as other digital video art never before seen in the United States.

Raphael Di Luzio will present a gallery talk on Saturday, October 13, at 1:30 p.m. This exhibition continues through Saturday, November 3.

Jameson Modern, at 305 Commercial Street, Portland, is open Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. For more information, please call 772-5522, or visit the website at www.jamesongallery.com.

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