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issue no.7 celebrates gallery-zero.com's first year anniversary
with computer drawings of haitian-american artist, fernand
dorléans. on february 1, 2006, my brother would have turned 48;
it was also on that date that I realized I was over grieving his
death. a year later i decided to launch gallery-zero.com as as an
e-magazine in dedication to him... this issue will focus on his
computer art for they best articulate the infiltration of science into
his creative process and exposes his relentless search for the
truth through the precision of his mathematical skills. all his
pieces were created between 1998-1999 with the use of a mouse
and window's paint software.
those who knew fernand immediately felt his angst. it was like the
collision of two worlds: that which he believed in vs. the one he
lived in; neither seemed comfortable. looking through his work, i
could see how he used fractal equations to generate some of his
images. it seemed that math became a tool to deconstruct the
rigidness of his life’s experience and abstractly reconstruct it.
he truly loved art in every form. you could see him sparkle
whenever a conversation surrounding anything creative came
up... but he was also drawn to the sciences... very early on, as
our mother introduced him to the major museums of new york
city, she recognized his talent and sent him to a private after
school art class. years later, when he changed his major from
architecture to mechanical engineering, i was surprised. when his
career veered him away from the city to suburbia it was not hard
to imagine the void he must have felt, or how it turned to a
restlessness that nurtured the angst that was already part of his
nature.
by 1994 the mundane confinement of suburbia finally got to him.
making a decisive decision to sacrifice the hour and a half
commute to silicon valley to live in a city where he could feel
energized by the pulse of life surrounding him, he moved to san
francisco. perhaps after work he could stop off at a café and on
his days off enjoy a walk through polk street, north beach or
downtown and dart in and out of quirky art shops, galleries and
museums. most important, san francisco was very accepting of
self expression; a nice contrast to new york’s suburban conformity.
about a year and a half before his death fernand quit his job,
managed to support himself with his savings and stock market
investments and found a new freedom through live drawing and
painting workshops. this drastic change of life clearly shows that
he had been on the brink of confronting the disparities in his life.
it is unfortunate that just as he found a medium which could
possibly allow him to express himself, he was gone...
with computer drawings of haitian-american artist, fernand
dorléans. on february 1, 2006, my brother would have turned 48;
it was also on that date that I realized I was over grieving his
death. a year later i decided to launch gallery-zero.com as as an
e-magazine in dedication to him... this issue will focus on his
computer art for they best articulate the infiltration of science into
his creative process and exposes his relentless search for the
truth through the precision of his mathematical skills. all his
pieces were created between 1998-1999 with the use of a mouse
and window's paint software.
those who knew fernand immediately felt his angst. it was like the
collision of two worlds: that which he believed in vs. the one he
lived in; neither seemed comfortable. looking through his work, i
could see how he used fractal equations to generate some of his
images. it seemed that math became a tool to deconstruct the
rigidness of his life’s experience and abstractly reconstruct it.
he truly loved art in every form. you could see him sparkle
whenever a conversation surrounding anything creative came
up... but he was also drawn to the sciences... very early on, as
our mother introduced him to the major museums of new york
city, she recognized his talent and sent him to a private after
school art class. years later, when he changed his major from
architecture to mechanical engineering, i was surprised. when his
career veered him away from the city to suburbia it was not hard
to imagine the void he must have felt, or how it turned to a
restlessness that nurtured the angst that was already part of his
nature.
by 1994 the mundane confinement of suburbia finally got to him.
making a decisive decision to sacrifice the hour and a half
commute to silicon valley to live in a city where he could feel
energized by the pulse of life surrounding him, he moved to san
francisco. perhaps after work he could stop off at a café and on
his days off enjoy a walk through polk street, north beach or
downtown and dart in and out of quirky art shops, galleries and
museums. most important, san francisco was very accepting of
self expression; a nice contrast to new york’s suburban conformity.
about a year and a half before his death fernand quit his job,
managed to support himself with his savings and stock market
investments and found a new freedom through live drawing and
painting workshops. this drastic change of life clearly shows that
he had been on the brink of confronting the disparities in his life.
it is unfortunate that just as he found a medium which could
possibly allow him to express himself, he was gone...