CYNTHIA-REEVES presents Modern Renaissance, Anne Morgan Spalter’s debut solo exhibition with the gallery, opening on November 22 with an artist talk at Independent Art Projects (IAP), 1315 Mass MoCA Way in North Adams, MA. In these innovative new works, media artist, Spalter creates a unique spatial experience by integrating printed and
moving imagery, using both traditional photography, as well as computational tools.

Continuing her exploration of the modern landscape and its relationship to landscape works of the past, Spalter combines aerial urbanscapes with video works based on Renaissance painting and cathedral imagery.

In two large-scale works, Spalter channels both the spirit and literal images from Hieronymus Bosch’s Garden of Earthy Delights. These video prints depict spherical worlds combining inner and outer realities. Mirroring the back panels of the famous Bosch triptych, the outer, printed forms set the scene for the highly charged interior. 

A series of smaller video prints, based on footage shot in Prague, draw on spires, cobblestones streets, stained glass, and an impressively vaulted cathedral interior to
create a spiritual space that celebrates the merging of art and science.

While the original imagery is Western in location and religious origin, the mandala-like, circular, geometric, and symmetrical forms bring an Eastern aesthetic to these
meditations on spirituality. The combination of East and West, and art and science, inspired the term Modern Renaissance.

Spalter is a long-time member of the Advisory Board of the Digital Art Museum, Berlin and has served on the editorial board of the Journal of Mathematics and Art, and the ACM SIGGRAPH Committee for Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement in Digital Art. Spalter’s works are included in leading contemporary collections in the United States, Europe, and the Middle East, as well as in the Albright-Knox Museum(Buffalo, NY); the Rhode Island School of Design Museum (Providence, RI); and, the Victoria & Albert Museum (London, UK). She earned her BA from Brown in Mathematics and Visual Art, and an independent major, as well as an MFA in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Design. Spalter is also the author of the widely used text The Computer in the Visual Arts (Addison-Wesley 1999). Her art, writing, and teaching all reflect her long-standing goal of integrating art and technology.

Spalter simply set out to answer the essential questions of visual artists and designers about the implementation of computers in their art. But in explaining the field's history, artistic theory, the relationship of software programs and the breadth of practitioners' works, she manages to provide a luscious intellectual feast even for non-practitioners. -- USA TODAY, July 27, 1999

The show of Anne Morgan Spalter new media artworks at Independent Art Projects is an
exhibition by CYNTHIA-REEVES. For information, directions and public viewing hours, please
visit IndependentArtProjects.com. For more information on the artist, please see the online
gallery at cynthia-reeves.com, or call 212 714 0044.