From a press release:
Champaign-Urbana’s most prestigious independent art gallery the Outhaus is honored and proud to be hosting Blaque Lyte Bubbly, the most recent installment of a roving art exhibition of exclusively black light sensitive paintings, drawings and sculptures. Previous incarnations of Blaque Lyte have appeared in Chicago, IL and Richmond, VA with future 2015 dates set for Kansas City, MO and Detroit, MI. Black Lyte Projects boasts a roster of artists from all over the world working in a wide range of styles and disciplines. Adding to the excitement, Blaque Lyte Bubbly will also serve as a sort of victory lap for co-curator Paul Nudd, a graduate (BFA 1999) of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
When asked about their interest in black lights, the curators respond, “In Blaque Lyte, we are recontextualizing various forms of contemporary visual art in an attempt to transcend the mere novelty and self-indulgent nature of traditional black light props. From top to bottom, our goal is to create an overwhelming and visually jarring environment, one that is essential in offering the viewer an exclusive experience, namely a weird and hyper-sensitized orgy of inversely illuminated odd-ball artworks . We are not attempting to recreate a haunted house through a fog of juvenile nostalgia. We feel we can offer a doubly altered series of optical rifts. All the work in Blaque Lyte will be specifically made to be seen under these unconventional and experimental conditions.”
Please join us for this optical hiccup mind flush. Exhibiting artists are as follows:
Andy Heck Boyd – New Hampshire
Chris Cilla – Portland, OR
Shamus Clisset – Brooklyn
Bruce Conkle – Portland, OR
Anya Davidson – Chicago
Rory Dean – Toronto
Jo Dery – Chicago
Krystal DiFranzo – Chicago
Brendan Donnelly – L.A.
Ryan Duggan – Chicago
Michael Dumontier – Winnipeg
Edie Fake – L.A.
Neil Farber – Winnipeg
Jack Felgate – London
Sanya Glisic – Chicago
Lane Hagood – Houston
Giselind Hardwig – Berlin
Keith Herzik – Chicago
Brendan Heuser – Chicago
Céline Hudréaux – Ghent, Belgium
Laurent Impeduglia – Liége, Belgium
Keenan Marshall Keller – L.A.
Klara Kristalova – Sweden
Sarah Leitten – Chicago
John Maggie – Detroit
Thomas Mazzarella – Brussels, Belgium
Max Mose – Minneapolis
Onsmith – Chicago
Paintallica – New York
Jaret Penner – British Columbia, Canada
Kristen Romaniszak – Chicago
Marie Rosen – Brussels, Belgium
DeeDee Scacci – Chicago
Seth Scriver – Toronto
David Shrigley – Glasgow, Scotland
Edra Soto – Chicago
Otto Splotch – New Orleans
Ben Stone – Chicago
Michael Swaney – Madrid
Matthew Thurber – Brooklyn
Tom Toye – Brooklyn
Lale Westvind – Brooklyn
Andrew Jeffrey Wright – Philadelphia
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When asked about their interest in black lights, the curators respond, “In Blaque Lyte, we are recontextualizing various forms of contemporary visual art in an attempt to transcend the mere novelty and self-indulgent nature of traditional black light props. From top to bottom, our goal is to create an overwhelming and visually jarring environment, one that is essential in offering the viewer an exclusive experience, namely a weird and hyper-sensitized orgy of inversely illuminated odd-ball artworks . We are not attempting to recreate a haunted house through a fog of juvenile nostalgia. We feel we can offer a doubly altered series of optical rifts. All the work in Blaque Lyte will be specifically made to be seen under these unconventional and experimental conditions.”