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Introducing Quotidian, a self navigated web exhibition of work from Kyle Schwingel. This exhibition utilizes the structure of the website to lead viewers through Schwingel’s images that are centered on the negotiation between the landscape of daily life and the illusion of an ever present digital exchange.
Quotidian describes the occurrences of everyday life, such as the sunrise, cars on the freeway, parking lots, and stop lights, these things go unremarked in the typical passings of our daily routines. These examinations follow how the immediate interactions of one’s surroundings can become the landscape vista by pulling the idea of the extended landscape closer to the human and the artificial and extending human experience into the invented or inaccessible through the reconfiguration of the landscape, infrastructure, and public systems as a psychological ground.
The digital process allows the different parts of the common world to be rearranged. The product of this is an amalgam that represents the breaking down of a designed order that has come to be accepted as our daily world. By questioning the influences, capabilities, and limitations of contemporary imaging technology to work against the expectant image each work smashes, smears, and obfuscates the old modernist treatment of landscape and highlights the invention that can take place in a digital space.
Works like Nightshift turnover: Relax, that combine the straightforwardness of a highway car rollover with a fantastic electric blue swimming pool placed in a vibrant sunset, utilizes common modes of digital manipulation, photoshop collage, and digital filtering to take the real to the unreal. Compared to Colors: Limited Assets, which use a high chroma palette to isolate, flatten, and blur the dimensions of the sky and deliver a sense of loneliness and colorful seduction. As well as, Interpolated: Test Patterns 1 & 2 which use the common web image container .gif to create a hypnagogic and psychedelic animation to lull the viewer into waves of color that rely on the breakdown of image post-processing.
Born in Madison, Wisconsin, Kyle Schwingel currently lives and works in Glendale, California. The artist will be receiving an MFA from the Otis College of Art and Design and received a BA from the University of Wisconsin - Green Bay in 2015.