Bruce Beasley: Momentum
Past exhibition
Works
Overview
Bruce Beasley
Aurai 8, 2020
Ink on Dibond Panel
48 in x 40 in
Momentum is a solo exhibition of Bruce Beasley’s most recent Aeolis sculptures and Aurai collages. Throughout his long career, Beasley has garnered global attention as an innovator whose work is a confluence of fine art, technology and aesthetics. In keeping with his life-long curiosity of technology as a creative means, Beasley employed virtual reality as the origin and inspiration for the works featured in this exhibition. In 2018, Beasley was invited to the acclaimed Pangolin Foundry to investigate the applications of virtual reality for abstract sculpture. "They knew of my career-long pursuit of tools to enhance the exploration of expressive shape, so VR as a shape-making tool was intriguing. I can stand in a space and gesture directly with my hand, the way an Abstract Expressionist might with a brush, and save the gestures as digital information. The organic and sweeping gestures in my Aurai collages and Aeolis sculptures achieve a sense of momentum I wanted to express. VR made it possible.”
