Through February 6th
FEEDBACKLOOP, is a solo exhibition and experimental installation surrounding a new series of portraits by painter Sandro Kopp. FEEDBACK LOOP presents painting cycles of the artist’s friends painted over the course of a Skype conversation. The resulting paintings are then placed in front of the camera in a video chat conducted at a later time and painted once again. The portraits embrace the distortion and pixelating interferences of the digital connection, thus creating representations that are progressively removed from a recognizable likeness. As a final step, the twice manipulated images are then transformed into a grid of squares – now almost completely abstracted; the figures’ faces are largely disguised.
FIVE ELEVEN Gallery 511 West 27th Street http://www.five-11.com