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Newest Collection: BMMA9 - Bruised Monitors Modern Art 908 August 2022This week's new collection is BMMA9. Like its predecessors (1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8, this collection's works are all from monitors with a kind of defect I call a bruise - a gradual, and usually slight, discooration, rather than a crack or dead pixel. To start off, the first work of note is Zigzag Steps, a relatively concrete work with six notable spots moving up through the center of the image, alternating from left to right. These contrast with the background, and seem to get both slightly smaller and slightly lighter as they approach the top of the image. Combined with the contours and shading of the background, and the horizon at the top of the image, this helps give the impression of depth. Next, Twin Wisps is a bright and straightforward work - two figures are portrayed, standing out in black against the yellow background, and both shaped similarly. Though it's largely unrelated to the subject of the work, the rough-paper texture of the background in this one is also quite nice. Bird Trail is another relatively concrete work, with the 'wings' clearly visible as scratches portruding from the side of one of the central bruises. The other bruises that extend from it are shaped so as to give a sense of direction and placement; the bird's beak is to the left, and is small and covered by what seems to be its body, thus implying its movement is away from the viewer. Meanwhile, the tail - or trail - to the right also contributes to that impression, seeming to be left behind. By contrast, Related Flecks is relatively abstract, albeit straightforward. The relatedness to which the title refers is the color of each fleck, though that's tinted by the shading in the background - dark stripes that swing through the image seemingly randomly. The color contrast of the work is impressive, and both the foreground and background colors are unusual for this gallery. But my personal favorite work this week is Chevron Constellation, a very straightforward work. It's very dark, but there is color to be found in the background from a close look, giving the impression of a busy, faraway nebula as a backdrop to the stars in the foreground. Meanwhile, the central focus is taken up by six pints of light, arranged into a chevron shape. Please enjoy! |
This is an extremely simple but extremely heartwarming work which simply consists of a heart-shaped depression on a soft pink background.
Why are ponds green? I dunno. But then, sometimes you just have to jump in, and maybe it'll make sense. This was the first work ever uploaded to Monitors of Modern Art, and serves as a strong start by presenting a simple, meaningful metaphor.
Some sort of wave travels along, and as it reaches the center of this work it expands and reaches a sort of explosion, from which it departs in a marvelous array of colors. It is abstraction incarnate - what this picture really displays is impossible to understand, but it begs to be examined and reexamined, and admired for its beauty, its incomprehensibility. This work is the precursor to almost every other Ripple Wave work in this gallery, including the entire contents of RWMA and RWMA2.
This work is especially impressive for its flaky, almost pastel-gradient style of shading, and an oddly digital texture that manifests itself more and more closer to the center of the image. These features underscore an incredible transition from a dark red to a deep blue, step by step, in an elegant way.
This is a fascinating work that uses a digital texture to portray a technical subject matter. The contrast of both vertical lines and the alternating-horizontal-checkerboard texture of the 'port' itself does a great job of giving a unique impression, and the image's overall color contour works together with its composition to give a good sense of directionality.