Recorded September 18, 2024
Kingsborough Art Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Moderator: Tommy Mintz, Chief Exhibition Curator

This is an artist talk associated with the “Hello Brooklyn” // Techspressionism 2024 exhibition at the Kingsborough Art Museum. The show was the first museum exhibition of Techspressionist artworks and included works by artists from over 20 countries.

About the Artists

Victor Acevedo is an artist best known for his digital work involving printmaking and video. Since 2007, his primary focus has been working with video and producing (electronic) visual music works. Acevedo issues signed limited edition prints of still images sourced from his video work as an ongoing practice. His hybrid imagery has a metaphysical bent, expressed with geometrical abstraction, sometimes with figuration. Acevedo is considered a desktop computer art pioneer. He was an early adopter of pre-Windows and pre-Mac OS personal computer software to create fine art in the early 1980s. He has shown his work in over 135 group and solo art exhibitions in the U.S. and Internationally since 1982. Recently, Acevedo ventured into the blockchain/NFT space.

Ann Shapiro’s work focuses on climate change and landscape and consists of digital collage, combining details of Shapiro’s own work, photographs, and found images from the internet. Understanding that warming temperatures are changing our planet in valuable ways, Shapiro’s work is focused on telling this planetary story.  Her work is in the collection of the Racine Museum, the Heller Museum, New Hampshire College, The Museum of Modern Art Library, The Brooklyn Museum of Art Library, and other notable collections. Ann Shapiro lives and works in New York, NY.