“/fluid_field” is part of the digital group show THE ARTIST IS ONLINE. Digital Paintings and Sculpture in a Virtual World on view at KÖNIG GALERIE in Decentraland (36.100).

The process of transformation from the immaterial to physical creates a tension that informs the feedback loop in Vieux’s process. She layers digital imagery created by dragging, distorting, and transformation already compressed information from scanning hand distorted holographic paper in software. Through the distortion and the capturing of light, gesture, scale, and effects, she explores often overlooked transitory moments, making the invisible visible.

“/fluid_field,” is a 20 second looping video made by animating a digital gesture and scanning holographic paper and further software manipulation. A nod to the formal elements of historical abstract painting, also uses a digital gesture of a large iconographic shape loosely based on the “#” sign. The fluidity of the background and insistence of form create a charged experience that exists indefinitely.

Her titles are intended to evoke a feeling of typing into a browser command field, or coding. She plays with tropes of viewing Painting, such as the window, mirror, and frame, are challenged by the screen. Every gesture leaves a footprint, physically or digitally. This idea is present visually in all layers of the pieces, calling attention to both. It is her goal to slow down the experience of virtual space, and speed up the experience of painting space.

Anne Vieux (1985), lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She received her BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute and her MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art. Her painting-based practice extends into sculpture, video, artist books, digital works and site installations. Her work questions the parameters that define physical and virtual experience. Vieux’s work has been shown in both solo and group exhibitions, including, Tennis Elbow at The Journal Gallery in New York, NY (2021); “Immaterial” at COUNTY Gallery in Palm Beach, FL (2019); “Paper View” at The Hole Gallery in New York, NY (2019); “Post Analog Studio” at The Hole Gallery in New York, NY (2019); “Command Field” at The Hole Gallery in New York, NY (2018); Tennis Elbow at The Journal Gallery in New York, NY (2017); “MESH” at Annka Kultys Gallery in London, UK (2017); “A Space for Thought” at Brand New Gallery in Milan, IT (2016); “Painters and Photographers” at the Providence College in Providence, RI (2016). Vieux’s artist books are included in public collections including, Newcomb Art Museum, MoMa Library, The Met, and the Virginia Commonwealth, and Reed College Library. Features and reviews of her work have appeared in Bomb, Bookforum, Mask and Mousse Magazine.

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