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GL Sullivan
"PAINTED MONITORS"
Resent Sculptures by GL Sullivan
June 2 - 30, 1983
Reception: Sat., June 4, 8:00 pm
Fine Arts Gallery
Broward Community College
Central Campus
Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
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| The Monitor has become the Icon of the 20th Century. By taking old or broken TV monitors and transforming them into Art works that contain both organic and mechanical qualities, I metamorphose them from utilitarian objects to universal icons. They become alive, as if infused with life granted by a creator-computer unit, pulsating, breathing, in their own individual existence. |
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"SOLAR LUMINOSITY"
Painted Monitor
1983
ART REVIEW by HELEN L. KOHEN, Art Critic,
the Miami Herald, June 10, 1983
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By Helen L. Kohen
Art Critic
| Kicked a TV lately? Next time the urge comes, call GL Sullivan. He destroys with the artifice of decoration, and will take over an abandoned set to transform it into sculpture. Among the current crop of PANTED MONITORS on view at Broward Community College, where the message still hovers about the medium, the purposes of video have been changed by his art. |
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| While there is practically nothing that can make a TV set beautiful as an object, Sullivan has painted his hollow icons with a flourish, spending color and texture upon them and even giving them (no doubt in exchange for the electricity that had been their life blood) a circulatory system of their own. Channels of paint and tunnels of color adorn the sets, only two of which work, one giving off a ghostly "beep", another showing off a continuous pattern of snow. |
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| A funny/serious mixture of painting and sculpture, these works by Sullivan are the first objects we have seen from him, although the beard he grows and destroys annually - the shaving of which is performed as a public event - has become something of an object, too. The made-over TV sets are prettier, frankly, and more thought provoking. |
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the Miami Herald
Friday, June 10, 1983
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| GALLERY OF PAINTED MONITORS: |
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| 2) "SKY ART: FLYING MONITORS" |
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5) "Only 6 months..."
(1984...)
| Electronic Mixed-media Installation |
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6) "SURROUNDED MONITORS"
(Homage to Christo)
8) "MAIN SEQUENCE STAGE"
12) "PULSAR 9"
"PAINTED MONITORS: RECENT SCULPTURES BY GL SULLIVAN"
September 3 - 30, 1985
Reception & Lecture by the Artist
Tuesday, Sept. 5, 7:00 pm
Mass Media Room
South Regional / BCC Library
South Campus
Pembroke Pines, Florida
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LIST OF WORKS:
1) "STELLAR EVOLUTION'
2) "VERTICAL HOLD"
3) "INNER GALACTIC HORIZONS" (1985)
Electronic Mixed-media
4) "BLACK HOLE" (1985)
5) "...1984..."
Electronic Mixed-media Installation
6) "SOLAR LUMINOSITY"
7) "GOLDEN ICON" (1985)
8) "QUASI-STELLAR SOURCE" (1985)
9) "STELLAR FORMATION" (1985)
10) "MODERN ICON" (1985)
11) "CELESTIAL HORIZON" (1985)
Electronic Mixed-media
12) "PISTON TABERNACLE" (1985)
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| GALLERY OF NEW PAINTED MONITORS: |
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"CELESTIAL HORIZONS" (1985)
| "QUASI-STELLAR SOURCE" (1985) |
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| "STELLAR FORMATION" (1985) |
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"INNER GALACTIC HORIZON" (1985)
| "PISTON TABERNACLE" (1985) |
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