Curated by Sung-Hee Son
Second Reception: October 1st. Exhibition On View Sept 9th to late September
Location: Michael Hayden Art Gallery 4413 W Jefferson Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90016
Tues – Thurs:1 to 5pm, Fri & Sat:12 to 6 pm, Sundays:by appointment.
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bG Gallery, in collaboration with Michael Hayden Art, is pleased to present PRECIPICE, a solo exhibition by native Southern Californian digital artist GK Austin. A reception will be held on September 17th, 2022, from 5 to 8 pm at 4413 W. Jefferson Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90016. “I play with the fractals and exaggerate them, combine them, and reform them into new forms, experiences, and ideas.” – GK Austin
In this series, Austin has created deep, expansive visual scenes and otherworldly depictions by expressionistically orchestrating fractal flames as his digital medium. The works are vibrant, abstract, and dimensional pieces that take the viewer to the phantasmal places and creatures of Austin’s imagination. At times serene and calming allusions to prismatic sunsets or gently ebbing water along a shore evoking a sense of calming and soothing states. Other pieces take us across rising epic cloud forms, cosmic space, and rugged or undulating terrains. All the while with a sense of energy, movement, and atmosphere that draws the viewer in to see and feel through the mind’s eye of the artist.
Austin’s artistic style and process evolved organically as a metaphysical melding of his lifelong connection to the ocean as an avid swimmer and surfer, along with his fascination with astrophysics and science fiction. Partly experienced, partly researched, and partly imagined and dreamed. Artistically he was influenced by the paintings of WMF Turner and Mark Rothko. Austin assimilated his interests in physics, fantasy, and nature into his expressive practice of creation in his digital medium.
About GK Austin
GK Austin is a Southern Californian native. At a young age, he developed a life-long love for the water finding the ocean or a backyard swimming pool the safest place in the world. “As an artist, water has been my primary muse,” and this muse has delivered. His compositions include icebergs floating adrift on a black ocean, canyon boulders sculpted by water into ornate swirls and patterns, clouds the size of mountains hovering over a calm or stormy sea, and an electric blue high tide washing onto a black sand beach in Iceland. Austin’s medium is digital. He selects patterns from nature called fractals. He combines or morphs them digitally into one another and collages them into compositions that excite. He has sold his work in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Palm Springs, and Chelsea, New York.
