David Hockney | Big Tech
September 7 - October 19 at Leslie Sacks Gallery
Leslie Sacks Gallery is pleased to present David Hockney | Big Tech an exhibition of a selection of David Hockney’s homemade prints executed on office color copy machine as well as a group of his iPad and iPhone drawings.
David Hockney has always been interested in “ways of seeing”. He has explored this concept throughout the decades by experimenting with the current technology of the time. In the early 1980’s he began making work comprised of photographs taken with Polaroid cameras. Shortly after he would be making art via fax machines and office photocopiers. In 2008-09 he started making drawings on his iPhone and iPad which he continues to make today. While his subject matter has a traditional resonance—still lifes, landscapes, portraiture—it is through his discovery and use of technology that he forges new ways of seeing the most familiar and fundamental subjects of life.
Images:
Two Red Chairs, March 1986
Homemade print executed on an office color copy machine
Untitled, April 17, 2011
iPad drawing
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