Stuart Allen
Arugula, Spinach, Tomato, Edible Flowers (Redbud, Calendula)
2021

Name: Arugula, Spinach, Tomato, Edible Flowers (Redbud, Calendula)
Brand: Stuart Allen
Price: 2500 USD
Availability: InStock

About the Item

Arugula, Spinach, Tomato, Edible Flowers (Redbud, Calendula) - Every Unique Pixel Color (419,260) Plotted by RGB Value, 2021 Edition of 10 Signed, titled, dated and numbered. Pigment print on cotton rag Paper size: 30 x 24 in. The Pixel Cloud drawings are 3 dimensional graphs of each unique pixel color in a digital photograph. Using statistical software, Stuart Allen exports the red, green and blue values of every pixel in a photograph to a data file. This dataset is reduced to a set of unique color occurrences, and these pixels are plotted in 3D space along 256-step red, green and blue axes. Dotted gray lines define the plot boundaries. The artist rotates the Pixel Cloud about its three axes to find the most compelling view. The work’s title describes the content of the source photograph and the number of unique pixel colors. ABOUT THE ARTIST: Stuart Allen is an artist whose work deals with fundamental elements of perception such as light, gravity and space. He has shown photographs and sculpture in galleries and museums throughout the U.S. and abroad, and his work is found in many private and public collections including the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Nelson-Atkins Museum, the Harry Ransom Collection, Kansas City Art Institute, San Antonio Museum of Art, the Wichita Art Museum, Tokyo Kite Museum, the Crocker Art Museum, the DiRosa Art Preserve, and U.S. Embassy collections in Canada, Bulgaria and the Republic of Georgia. Allen has completed many permanent public art commissions, including the U.S. Embassy, the City of San Antonio, Kansas University, Trinity University, Butler College, University of Texas, San Antonio and the Police Headquarters building in Davis, CA. His work has been published in a variety of books and journals including: Picturing California's Other Landscape: the Great Central Valley, Terra Nova: Nature and Culture, You Are Here: the Journal of Creative Geography, Zyzzyva and Artweek. Allen has lectured or served as a visiting artist at many fine institutions including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Weisman Art Museum, The Atlantic Center for the Arts, and a number of university art departments nationwide. Allen studied architecture at Kansas University and graduated from the photography and video department of the Kansas City Art Institute in 1994. He is currently based in San Antonio, Texas, where he lives with his wife, son and daughter.

Creator:

Stuart Allen (1970, American)

Creation Year:

2021

Dimensions:

Height: 30 in (76.2 cm)Width: 24 in (60.96 cm)Depth: 0.1 in (2.54 mm)

Medium:

Digital Pigment

Movement & Style:

Contemporary

Period:

21st Century