Alexis Rockman


Big Weather
48 minutes, 22.1mb, recorded 2004-10-22
Rockman is an artist who studies how culture sees nature. He provides commentary on images of his paintings. We only have the audio, but you'll appreciate Rockman's works online.

Alexis Rockman, born in 1962, is a leader among a young generation of artists who have returned to figurative content. Inspired by the natural sciences, he creates perverse yet seductive paintings that explore the intersections between biology and technology, reality and fantasy. Rockman's earliest work deals with natural history in ways that are eerie, yet believable, and his latest work is inspired by a trip to Guyana and by late-nineteenth and early twentieth-century science expedition narratives.

He is a graduate of the School of Visual Arts, and his work has been exhibited internationally in numerous solos and group exhibitions, and is in the permanent collections of several prominent institutions, including Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Brooklyn Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and Baltimore Museum of Art.

Facilitation graphics by Peter Durand of Alphachimp Studio

This presentation is the third and final Pop!Tech 2004 presentation on the topic, Big Weather. It includes the Q&A session with Brian Fagan and Richard Alley.

This presentation is one of many from the IT Conversations archives of Pop!Tech 2004 held in Camden, Maine, October 21-23, 2004.


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