For Immediate Release: May 14, 2021
Shura McComb
MY LOVE SPiNS… SPiNS LOVE
Curated by Jonathan Shorr
In-person Opening Reception:
Saturday June 5, 2021 1pm-5pm
Something Expanded 11, MPLTBL 2020 © Shura McComb (photo Jonathan Shorr)
Gallery Hours 1pm to 5pm
Saturdays June 5 - July 10, 2021 (Closed July 3)
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About the Exhibition
GARNER Arts Center is pleased to present MY LOVE SPiNS... SPiNS LOVE, a large immersive video exhibition of Multimedia Artist Shura McComb’s ground-breaking new work in video, digital, projection mapping, sound, movement art and VJ. He brings illumination and spirit to the world through the use of an intricate blend of 3D technology and the abstract narrative of emotive motion art. McComb is a cultural storyteller creating a new vista with inventive graphics and culture-play. A riveting image-maker, he creates visually consuming discoveries. McComb’s work reveals an unusual awareness — both cerebral and sensory — of how humans consume images and story across culture.
McComb’s videos envelop the viewer, splashing across complex industrial landscapes, buildings, objects and small screens. Encompassing a wide range of cinematic, irresistibly attractive videos and movement, the imagery installs the viewer into McComb’s other-worldly spaces where fictions are more real than fact.
McComb paints and sculpts ethereal videoscapes — color, music, and vitality collide with soothing mastery. His work is refined yet raw, leading the viewer through overlapping expansions of creativity. He unweaves a narrative in color wilderness and multi-dimensional warping. This unique visual terrain is simultaneously new and familiar while establishing mutable emotional revelations and sweeping sensatory encounters. From the unexpected we imagine ourselves anew.
McComb creates an engaging audio-visual trialogue with the viewer, industrial space and projections of expanding unknowableness embraced by human creativity. A master of spatial reality, video manipulation and projection technique, McComb has produced hundreds of image and video artworks and presented them in dozens of art, cultural and popular locations in New York and Florida. McComb’s seminal production at GARNER Arts Center with Curator Jonathan Shorr, includes 25 monumental outdoor projections during the Let There Be Light Festival and other video productions and upcoming in 2021 The VJ Show, Mapping Projection and VJ Classes, along with Summer Outdoor Projections.
McComb was the Visual Director and resident VJ for Brooklyn's underground party ReSolute for 6 years. In addition, he's VJ'd at Output, the Brooklyn Mirage/Avant Gardner, Webster Hall, House of Yes, and countless warehouses big and small. He’s mixed live for an extensive list of artists including Nina Kraviz, Andrew Weatherall, The Black Madonna, [a:rpia:r], Rhadoo, Chez Damier, DJ Tennis, Bob Moses, Sonja Moonear, Zip, Daniel Bell, Nightmares on Wax, and many more. He has created interactive art experiences for First Night St. Petersburg, The Museum of Fine Arts and The James Museum.
Shura McComb was born in 1972 in New York City. He is an Artist in Residence at GARNER Arts Center and lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
For more images and info please contact:
Curator Jonathan Shorr
845-947-7108 / info@garnerartscenter.org
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