Silicon Gallery has been showing digital work since 1994, making it one of the earliest exclusively digital galleries anywhere in the world. Our vision and direction have shifted somewhat since those early, freewheeling days and we now only show work printed at Silicon Gallery Fine Art prints, with a particular emphasis on Fine Art Photography. However, Silicon Gallery remains proud of its association with the early days of the digital art genre and the selected shows highlighted below are an important part of our history.
November 1994
Small Computers in the Arts Network
anarchy in the arts: the techno-revolution
Art show in conjunction with the 14th Annual SCAN
symposium held at the Franklin Institute. SCAN was one of the very earliest
groups to investigate the potential of computer technologies in the arts.
Early conferences focused more on music, but as the group expanded - and
as digital tools for the visual arts became more sophisticated - they
began to look at the visual arts as well. The last SCAN conference was
held in 2000.
December 1994
Dennis Orlando
and Gary Clark
Dennis and Gary both began experimenting with the digital medium early
on and Silicon was one of the first galleries to show there work.
August/September
1995
Fractal Design Show
Featured the winners of Fractal Design Corp's international art competition
- this exhibit was also shown at Macworld in Boston and the Seybold Conference
in San Francisco. Visit the Fractal
Design Gallery for a sense of the work in this show.
October 1995
Intersculpt '95
Our most ambitious show of digital sculpture in conjunction with the
Computer Sculpture Forum (USA) and Ars Mathematica (France). During the
show we had a video link with our sister gallery in Paris (Gallerie Graphe)
and visitors to the galleries could take remote control of the camera
and "look around" even though the galleries were 3,000 miles
apart. Intersculpt
is still going on in 2007.
November 1995
SCAN - Digital Passion
SCAN art show in conjunction with the 15th
annual symposium held at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia.
January 1996
PICACOC3
Philadelphia's International Contemporary Art Competition of Old City
show of digital art winners.
February/March
1996
ENIAC Show
ENIAC,
the worlds first computer, had it's 50th birthday
party, attended by Vice President Gore and Silicon Gallery held a special
show to help the celebrations.
May 1996
Serban
Epuré
One man show
December 1996
Deena
des Rioux
One woman Show
February 1997
SILICON GALLERY SPOTLIGHTS WOMEN ARTISTS
Exhibition presented in conjunction with W.C.A. National Conference
March 1997
Alan Kolc
& Michael Furman
Digital Desire - (Cars & Babes)
December
1997
Dorothy
Simpson Krause, Bonny
Lhotka
Lit from Within
March 1998
Bob Asman,
Nancy Hellebrand-Blood,
Mark Campbell, Paul
Cava, Susan
Fenton, Richard Harrod, Jeannie Pearce, Blaise
Tobia
Silicon, Silver and Light
May 1998
Various Artists
The Digital Canvas
Digital creations on a 15" square of canvas
June 1998
Ruth West
Savage Women
November
1998
SCAN 1998
Winners of the Small Computers in the Arts Network show including Jeannie
Pierce, Mel Fisher, Will Montgomery, Robert Michael Smith, Harris Fogel,
Steve Belkowitz
February 1999
Tom Porett
Retrospective
September
/ October 2001
For a couple of years, we had
a printmaking studio and gallery in the DUMBO (down under the Manhattan
Bridge overpass) section of Brooklyn and were participants in community
arts events such as Digital DUMBO, held in fall 2001
October
2001
Insiders View
An exploration of the digital printmaking process of 12 artists working
with Silicon Gallery Fine Art Prints. Organized in conjunction
with the Brooklyn
Museum of Art's show "Digital: Printmaking Now" in
which several prints from Silicon featured prominently.
September
2003
Richard Wright
New Landscapes
October
2003
April
Vollmer
Inside Out
November
2003
Philadelphia Printmaking Collaborative (now Philagrafika)
2003 Portfolio
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