When it comes to optical illusion art, the possibilities seem limitless.įor you, we have compiled an impressive selection of optical illusion art varying in medium, technique and philosophy. Skillfully created to make you question reality, these pieces that alter our senses of certainty are certainly awe-inspiring and unique. Using coloured chalk, simple graphics or various painting mediums, they play with our concept of space, time, and reality. Exploring various digital and traditional techniques to create cognitive illusions that force a double take, they dedicate their creativity to create most intricate design patterns, street art and illusionistic paintings and drawings. Artists: Nathan Burazer, Sarah Cain, Rita DiLorenzo, Amanda Eicher, Lucy Harvey, Amanda Hughen, Zoey Kroll, Albert Reyes, Jennifer Starkweather. Escher, Salvador Dali and Marcel Duchamp are certainly pioneers of the artistic visual manipulation, but today’s contemporary artists have made this style branch off into many different directions. Employing abstract patterns, geometric shapes and a high contrast between the foreground and background, their paintings influenced many generations of artists that followed. ![]() ![]() Exploring the science of observing through new technologies and psychology, these artists created historically important thought-provoking artworks. Puzzling and confusing the viewer’s perception, the beginning of the optical illusion art can be traced back to the 1950s and the Op Art and Kinetic Art movements. Ning Gallery is extremely proud of this group of artists and excited for this exhibition’s outcome.Intrigued and fascinated by the nature of perception and perspective, artists have been creating different kinds of illusion art for centuries. We can see how artists apply their incredible imagination to real world material and we can sense the influence of artists’ consciousness and subconsciousness. This exhibition articulates the similarity and difference between reality and illusion in a variety of artistic forms. This combination makes this artwork become surreal but at the same time a visual satisfaction for the viewer. In objects’ endless and repetitive movement, the traces of water are randomly generated by a rational mechanical power. Michael Fadel‘s installation uses mechanical elements such as motors, gears, and other hardware to facilitate interaction between an object and a fluid. In Drawing Hands, space and the flat plane coexist, each born from and returning to the other, the black magic of the artistic illusion made creepily manifest. Scanning allows the materials to become an abstract print, merging into complicated, and often illusionist compositions which further disrupt the information and how we view it. LaRose scans identifiable and familiar materials, often from architectural interiors. The work is more than just showing a powerful beauty of nature under the breathtaking images, a deep and emotional message is gently invoked.Īndrea LaRose’s sculpture investigates our material world and its digital copy. The body contours create a series of mountainous and wavy scenes. ![]() In his award-winning video work, viewers follow the abstract shape created by over 20 dancers’ movement under the soft blue light. ![]() This exhibition invites the viewer to see how artists use their artworks to bridge the gap between the world of imaginations and facts.Ībe Abraham creates video-art works that feature dancers from some of the leading dance companies in the world, including New York City Ballet, Alvin Ailey, Complexions, Shen Wei, Stephen Petronio, and Dutch National Ballet. based artists, explores the relationship between certainty and uncertainty, existence and nonexistence, reality and unreality in painting, video, sculpture, photography, mixed media, and installation. Over 60 internationally-recognized visual artists, writers, and poets with deep roots across the San Francisco Bay Area spanning three generations participated. Ning Gallery is pleased to present their first 2019 juried group exhibition: The Illusion and Reality, featuring 18 artworks created by 14 U.S.
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