Opening Reception: Saturday August 22, 6-9pm
Roy Nachum 'Prophecy' 2009
oil on canvas 50x55"
At first glance the paintings by Roy Nachum can easily be confused with digital art. However, his works are actually oil paintings on canvas that are painted in a way that spurs the viewer to investigate further. Nachum creates his images by utilizing the idea of pixels. Each ‘pixel’ is painted one-by-one. The end result is a painting that comes together in a unique manner. Nachum describes this as creating micro worlds that come together in order to form the pattern of a single reality or of a dream.
Roy Nachum 'Sacrifices of Ones' Own desire' detail 2008
oil on canvas, 47x71"
This different technique also creates the desire of a physical approach to the piece, inviting people to feel and touch every pixel, experience the virtual and physical coming together in one unique moment. Influenced by everything that surrounds Nachum examines daily behaviors of different people, what makes them do the things they do and why-- what they take for granted and why they do so. Thought, making and results – this is the origin of Nachum’s inspiration.
Roy Nachum 'Equality of Condition' 2008,
oil on canvas 81x187"