Blue Star Contemporary Art Space will be opening a new show by Leslie Raymond this Thursday, Sept 4. From the artist statement:

Nature, technology, and social systems are prevalent themes in my images, presented with as much attention to the aesthetics of the imagery as possible. The seductive beauty of celluloid film drew me to work with the moving image more than twenty years ago, and in keeping with the technological changes inevitable over time I eventually moved from 8mm and16mm film to digital video. Reconciling the major difference in image quality between the two media has certainly inspired my deep attention to developing the visual characteristics of my imagery. I tread a fertile terrain between the cinema and the art world. I derive influence from all of the genres of film– art house, avant-garde, film noir, Hollywood, kung-fu, new wave, online, underground, and so-on. The histories and practices of both experimental cinema and video art are equally fascinating to me, particularly in their correlation to social, economic, technological, and cultural developments.

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