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Nick Gentry's Obsolete Portraits
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fawwaz
Sunday, April 17, 2011
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assemblage portraits,
computer disk art,
floppy disk art,
mixed media portraits,
nick gentry,
nick gentry art,
portrait art,
recycled art,
tape art,
vhs tape art
From Switched -- "Central St. Martins grad Nick Gentry appropriates obsolete tech materials -- like floppy disks and VHS tape -- as the media for his paintings. As the world moves further away from these kinds of storage devices, Gentry suggests, we lose touch with the terrestrial. His work is nostalgic for a time when objects were less disposable, before "human existence [was] governed by billions of invisible data files," as he writes on his site."
He uses recycled materials such as computer disks, VHS tapes, floppy disks - incorporating them in the elements of his portraits, along with painting.







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