Tranparency Now: Hunter Cross February 11, 2010

The Abrons Arts Center is proud to present the sit-specific exhibition, Transparency Now, in the Charles E. Culpeper Gallery. Hunter Cross employs materials common to mid-1990s office environments and elementary school classrooms, stacking prefab bingo chips on overhead projectors to produce images reminiscent of microscopic imagery and vector graphics.

These 'overheads' work with the available color palette and are built from a set of devised rules, routines and patterns. This imagery creates a mysterious environment stuck in time, recalling an abandoned
office meeting or scientific visualization. By focusing on color and light and its interaction with the site's glass cases, Hunter Cross scales his work using the compression capabilities of the projected image
to encourage questions regarding an art object's role in the
creation of its own image. This work is part of Transparency Now, a series of installations demonstrating the potential of this set of rules, routines and patterns when forced to adapt to different site
scales.

Visitors are encouraged to walk around the projectors and photograph themselves in the projections to be included in an online archive. Photos of any quality should be emailed to: [email protected].

Hunter Cross (born 1980) received his BA from Trinity University in 2003. He has exhibited at Austin Museum of Art, Art Palace, Dallas Contemporary and Arthouse, and has recently been awarded a
large-scale public art commission from the City of Austin. Cross lives and works in Austin, Texas.

For more information visit www.abronsartscenter.org or www.huntercross.com.

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