THE W. KEITH
& JANET KELLOGG UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY
Thurs., August 23 - Thurs., October 18, 2018
Opening Reception: Sat. Aug 25, 2018, 3-6pm| Artist Talk: 4:30pm
Closing Reception | Artist's Q&A: Thurs. Oct 18, 2018, 11:30am-1:30pm
Exhibition Installation View, Sasha vom Dorp:15.15 Hz, Aug 23 - Oct 18, 2018, Kellogg University Art Gallery,
Cal Poly Pomona, curated by Michele Cairella Fillmore. Photo credit: William Gunn, Wolverine Design Studio.
This exhibition consists of two, three, fourth, and fifth-dimensional work: a light-based interactive installation, multi-sensory video-sound installations, and photography created by the intersection of sunlight, water and sound waves. The result is the artist's endeavor to fuse the visual, auditory and tactile senses into one unique experience in order to expand the limits of perception.
Sasha Raphael vom Dorp
15.15 Hz Sunlight 01.28.2018 14:19:05.008 36 o24'22"N 105 o34'31"W
from the Sound Bending Light Series, 2018
Photograph of sunlight encountering sound as observed through the medium of water; archival pigment print mounted on aluminum, ed. 1/3, 42 x 28"
Courtesy of the artist. Image used with permission ©2018.
Sasha Raphael vom Dorp
15.15 Hz Sunlight 01.14.2018 14:10:32.006 36o24'22"N 105o34'31"W
from the Sound Bending Light Series, 2018
Artist Statement
Cartography is difficult for both the maker of the map, and the lost soul that clings to its edges. Sasha vom Dorp uses his experience of life, his arrogance, and ignorance, to make a map of the universe. However, his map is not a map like the ones we are used to -one in which objects are represented solely in their spatial relationship to other objects. Rather, it is a map that uses a minute to represent the infinite: a map that seeks to represent change through time using sound, light, matter, and that matter's relative density. Vom Dorp states, "I am interested in expanding the limits of my own perception, so I make these things."
Sasha Raphael vom Dorp in collaboration with Sacha Riviere
222.22 Hz - Surface Tension from the Sound Bending Light Series, 2017
These photographs taken in natural sunlight, are of sound waves made visible
through the medium of water. Each photo represented here is of the same
sound generated at 15.15 Hz. While not intentional, it is not an accident
that they all share a certain eroticism. This is what 15.15 Hz looks like
as it moves through water, and also through time. While the transactions
photographed had all their infinite possibilities reduced to one by the
artist's own intervention, it is his intention that the dynamism that
gives birth to the images has an echo within them.
Some of vom
Dorp's work represents the three-dimensional world, in a two-dimensional
format, while some explore the fourth-, utilizing video and video projection,
and even the fifth-, the slipperiest dimension, with the use of interactive
technology. While the artist can have no control over the viewer's experience
of time, a video of water falling from an overflowing rain gutter is meant
to comment on, and perhaps even influence that perception. The sound of
that same rain is slowed down, expanded, and then delivered to the viewer
in an unexpected way. This allows the viewer to peek at the fungible nature
of time. Even if the view is intermittent, and something which our rational
minds buck against, vom Dorp can, even if just for a length of a single
breath, expose the "clock's lie" and its tyrannical "tick-tock"
-which is nothing less than the sound of our own impending deaths marching
closer. To end, he states, "Because there is no possibility of living
forever, I wish to tear off a piece of it. I slow down time long enough
to experience life's wonder even if it is just as we look at something
as common as water spilling over the edge of a rain gutter."
Biography
Sasha Raphael vom Dorp has been exhibiting his work since 1992.
A practice that began with painting in oils has evolved into creating kinetic sculpture, photography and interactive multimedia installations. His current work employs a machine that he's created allowing him see sound waves as they interact with sunlight and matter. His work has been featured on PBS and published in the New York Times. Having lived in Sweden, Mexico, Taiwan, the Philippines and Los Angeles, he's returned home to Taos where he works and lives with his wife and four children.
LOCATION INFO
Kellogg University Art Gallery
California State Polytechnic University Pomona
3801 West Temple Avenue, Pomona CA 91768
The Kellogg
University Art Gallery is located in Building 35A, on the Northeast end
of the Bronco Student Center, diagonally across from the Univ. Library.
GALLERY HOURS: effective Aug 23, 2018
THE KELLOGG UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY (Building 35A)
Mon-Tues 4-8p, Wed-Thurs 12-4p, Sat-Sun 12-4p, Fridays Closed.
CONTACT INFORMATION
ARTIST WEBSITES:
Kellogg Gallery Direct: 909-869-4302 www.facebook.com/SashaRaphaelvomDorp/
Huntley Gallery Direct: 909-979-5556 sashavomdorp.com/
Email: artgalleries@cpp.edu
instagram.com/sashavomdorp/
