Interview with Curator Phaedra Siebert
Ben Whitehouse talks about his painting and
the evolution of The Revolution Series
McNay Art Museum, San Antonio
March 15 - April 25
Revolution Still Lifes
ArtChicago
April 30 - May 3
Perimeter Gallery, Booth TBA
Grand Rapids Art Museum
June 4 - August 22
GRAM and Ox-Bow
Perimeter Gallery, Chicago September 10 - October 9
| For immediate release | August 26 2006 |
In a continuation of Whitehouse’s interest in creating an art that captures contemporary landscape experience and conserves it for future generations, Whitehouse’s new project—Revolution—is the creation of a series of 24-hour, single shot, high definition digital works that record from a fixed camera every movement, light shift, mood shift and sound that occurs in the chosen composition for an entire 24-hour period—one revolution of the earth. The works are then viewed in real time on large scale plasma screens.
The first such work, Water, begins with the sound of waves breaking on Lake Michigan’s shore at midnight. At dawn the sun rises to reveal the composition. A storm blows through, light and mood constantly shift, the sun sets, night falls.
Special thanks go to Panasonic. All plasma screens, cameras and speakers used to create Revolution generously provided by Panasonic.