COLIN GOLDBERG

Colin Goldberg coined the term Techspressionism in 2011 and is recognized for his role in developing the community of artists working with technology that forms the core of this international movement. He is a recipient of grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation and the New York State Council on the Arts.

In 2005, Goldberg began running painted surfaces through his large-format printer. This series of experimental paintings developed into his Wireframe series, which has been featured in WIRED, The New York Times and on PBS.

In 2020, Goldberg organized the first Techspressionist Salon with fellow artists Steve Miller, Patrick Lichty, Oz Van Rosen and art historian Helen Harrison, the longtime Director of the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center in Springs, New York. This meeting was the start of what would become the Techspressionist artist group.

In 2022, the artist’s large-scale augmented-reality piece Kneeling Icon, from his Metagraph series, was acquired by the Hearst Corporation. This work, the first AR work in the Hearst Collection, is now permanently installed in their corporate headquarters in Hearst Tower on 57th Street in Manhattan.

His piece in this exhibition, Interior Landscape expands on his practice of abstract vector-based digital drawing and incorporates an ambient soundscape by Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky.

Goldberg lives and works in North Bennington, Vermont, with his daughter, Aya.
 

RENATA JANISZEWSKA

The elements of Janiszewska’s art are both computer-generated and decorated with digital paintings which are drawn by hand with a stylus on the screen of her device. These elements act as characters in the mise en scene made using multiple apps. There is layering, cutting out, blending, superimposition and doubling of material to produce still images or animated loops. Recursivity and chance play a part. She edits these like an early hip-hop artist: connecting the loops using simple mobile editing software. Janiszewska composes and records her own soundtracks.

The DIV quality of her working method frees her tremendously to express her emotions, as a good Techspressionist does. The apps allow her to complete and share work quickly, facilitating experimentation. Hybridization allows for multiple techniques to be used and the file travels through numerous formats in a trice. Some of her themes are bio­ degradation,altered states of perception, temporal erosion and feminism.

Her works are in both Canadian and international collections. Selected exhibitions at Kingsborough Art Museum, NY,Southampton Arts Centre, NY, Cotuit Centre for the Arts, MA, University of Wisconsin, Patchogue, NY and the Cape Cod Museum of Art, MA.

Janiszewska lives in Lion’s Head, Canada.
 

KAREN LAFLEUR

Karen LaFleur is a Techspressionist artist, writer and animator. Her work explores the interplay between interior and exterior worlds with a focus on adaptability. She reveals vulnerabilities in complex relationships and highlights resiliencies in these ever-shifting landscapes.

LaFleur creates fine art moving images that unfold a complex mixture of 2D and 3D blended imagery. Since 1981 she’s trained in various applications transferring her traditional art skills into moving images that dance across the screen.

Movement is an integral part of LaFleur’s creative process whether digitally rendered or traditionally captured. Her pencil drawings on vellum form a base for her moving image works and include the tiniest of details. Each piece is then digitally painted and animated in a variety of applications to create a world of color, shape and movement. Her skill in visual storytelling combined with Nancy Tucker’s narrative music, brings her moving image works to life with a sense of story rhythm that enriches the work’s believability.

Exhibits Include: Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institute, Washington DC, Fuller Museum MA, Union Square San Francisco CA, Hudson Valley MOCA NY, Cotuit Center for the Arts Video Wall MA, MOCA L.l.ghts NY, Cape Cod Museum of Art MA, MOWNA, NYC, The Wrong Biennial, Southampton Art Center NY, Kingsborough Art Museum, Brooklyn NY.

LaFleur lives and works on the island of Cape Cod, MA
 

JAN SWINBURNE

Jan Swinburne’s intermedia practice overlaps images, sculpture, and experimental moving image art in two streams: gallery oriented exhibitions, and time based experimental forms. Her thematic focus revolves around speech, language as landscape, degenerated and regenerated images and sounds.

Swinburne has screened/exhibited internationally in Greenwich England, New York City, Brooklyn (Brooklyn Art Museum), (Experi­ MENTAL Festival 6), New Jersey(Filmideo/lndexArt Centre),South Hampton (TECHSPRESSIONISM: Digital & Beyond), Washington DC (RhizomeDC), Croatia ( fu:bar 2k23) and in Canada (MUFF, Vector, Art On The Screens, Trinity Square Video, Photophobia, Pleasure Dome TNW tour, Long Winter and more). Her sonic works have been published in The Wire Magazine and through Alrealon Musique record label.

Swinburne works and lives in Toronto, Canada.