Optic Response - Flashbacks: Summer of Love 50 Years On

Rakuko Naito
 RN1432-65, 1965
 
 Acrylic on cotton canvas
 
 32" x 32" x 1.5"
 
 
 Copyright © Rakuko Naito
 
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 A pop up exhibition comprised of paintings from the 1960s and contemporary artworks that are highly retinal, inducing flashbacks and memories of the Summer of Love
 
 
 Through September 2, 2017
 
 
 

Ed Mieczkowski
 Extrend, 1964
 
 Acrylic on board
 
 40" x 36" x 1.5"
 
 
 Copyright © Ed Mieczkowski Estate
 
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 Optic Response focuses on artworks that stimulate the eye, produce illusions and challenge visual perception.
 
 
 Challenging visual perception was an important part of the 1960s and the psychedelic experience. The illusory effects were, and still are, created by taking advantage of meticulously executed combinations of the vibrational pairings of colors, fluorescent paint, use of line variations, geometric shapes and repeating patterns.
 
 

Tadasky
 C143, 1965
 
 Acrylic on canvas
 
 47" x 47"
 
 
 Copyright © Tadasky (Tadasuke Kuwayama)
 
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Contemporary artists continue to explore visual perception by using many of the same formal properties as in the 1960s combined with new technologies and materials.
 
 

Oli Sihvonen
 Untitled (069), 1988
 
 Oil and acrylic on canvas
 
 66" x 70 "
 
 
 Copyright © The Oli Sihvonen Trust
 

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Flashbacks: Summer of Love 50 Years On is a short series of pop up exhibitions that will continue through the rest of summer 2017.
 
 
 Many of the gallery artists were founders of and early practitioners of Op Art and exploring visual perception. Several of the gallery’s established and emerging artists continue to explore this practice with the use of acrylic plastic, three-dimensional shapes, interference paint and digital productions.
 
 

Francis Celentano
 Le Cirque 1, 2003
 
 Acrylic on canvas
 
 26 x 38 "
 
 
 Copyright © Francis Celentano
 
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