Ye Olde Mansion Frills - Fractal Prints by Adam Zynger

Posted by: Adam Zynger

Press Release

Fractal Prints by Adam Zynger“ Ye Olde Mansion Frills” November 2, 2013 through January 5, 2014 Carroll Mansion Art Gallery800 East Lombard Street Baltimore, MD 21202Phone: 410 605 2964 Gallery Hours: 12 – 4 PM, Saturday and Sunday Reception: Saturday, November 9, 2 – 4 PM with fractal music Artist’s contact: 410 653 0380, newdigitalart@ yahoo.com

Carroll Mansion, the site of Adam Zynger’s present exhibit has a long and twisted history - from the link to the signer of the Declaration of Independence and a wealthy part of town, to poor immigrants quarters and a saloon, eventually slated to be torn down and replaced by a profitable gas station. Instead, the mansion was resurrected into its old glory, now making part of the historic district and facing a three story ironwork façade - part of Baltimore history as well, thus linking the 19th and 20th centuries.

Adam Zynger exhibited internationally since his high school years and in Baltimore as well, including in BMA (Baltimore Museum of Art) as part of the Artist’s Equity show. His playful encounters with digital art begun with the purchase of his first computer. The purity of color and new formal potential were just too irresistible to be missed He then decided to share his enthusiasm with a wider audience, exploring the possibilities offered by various media software – a new perspective on the “good old art”. While an editor of Artist’s Equity Newsletter, he published an article on Art and Science, demonstrating an underlying structural similarity in these two, seemingly unrelated, fields. It so happened that historically many mathematicians have quantified such relation, but only recently it was computer- visualized as fractals. You will find different approaches to the same subject/object. But far from being object - oriented, Zynger’s art is form and soul - searching.

It’s in this spirit that the artist decided to venture into the bygone era with his new-fangled fractal art, poking visual fun along the way at the images and mores of the old and not so old days. He divided his exhibited works into three loose categories, Olde Irons – in deference to the historic structures of the Carroll courtyard, Burlesque - to evoke some of the saloon ambiance, and Pure Sensations, to demonstrate that fractals can be appealing, without holding any specific reference to reality. Remarkably, these computer-generated, sought- and-captured fractals – “fractured” images, have a peculiar affinity to perceivable reality without being derived from it! Their behavior is similar to omnipotent stem cells in biology, from which specific organs can be generated. One could simply say that
we humans, being a part of nature, are bound to construct images according to its innate laws, be it consciously or intuitively. Fractal art gives us the hard evidence that art and science can bridge, its esthetic splendor being derived from mathematical equations.
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