April 27-30, 2007 at Bridge Art Fair07 Chicago

Motion Paintings by Jeffers Egan.

Biography of the artist

Egan’s Motion Painting works are the next generation of visual art, fusing digital technology with the raw expressiveness of abstraction. These works update painting to function and have relevance in our media-saturated world; while simultaneously breaking new ground for the medium of video. In Egan’s work, video is boosted up to the next level of art evolution. Just as painting began as a medium used to represent reality and gradually diverged to abstraction, with Egan’s work, video emerges as an abstract art form.

Egan’s Motion Paintings are hand-crafted digital animations that use plasma screens as their frame. Working with Pollock’s concept of the canvas as a place of action, and Rothko’s idea of painterly plasticity, Egan’s work reaches back to the formulations of abstract expressionism, refreshing the genre and literally bringing the world of painting to life. Each work is a perfectly seamless loop, removing that key element of time within the inherently time-based medium of animation/video. The result is a visual world with no beginning nor ending, an incursion which envelopes the viewer in the hyper reality of the sublime.

Jeffers Egan has worked for the last several years to combine the mediums of abstract painting, real-time visuals, motion graphic design, architecture and electronic music, showing his work worldwide, in galleries, clubs, film festivals, and museums. Egan’s work has earned several international media art award nominations (including dmotion, Popkomm and backup festivals) and has received critical acclaim from around the globe – described as “beautiful” (New York Times), “compelling” (Digital Production) and “the most advanced trip imaginable in the current field of visuals”.

Still prints by Marius Watz

Works created between 2011-2006 on Flickr.