#abstraction

#abstraction

The funny thing about illusions is how true they can be. In Soren Hope's solo show, Two Time at New York Life Gallery, there is great truth to be discovered. Deftly playing with abstraction and figuration, repetition and fragmentation, Hope's paintings and prints are at once dazzling and contemplative, decipherable and utterly beguiling. But there are no cheap tricks here-no feints or gotchas. Rather, Hope's show is a profound meditation upon the fallibility of perception and the folly of certainty.

revealing the structure of its underground architecture. It is so sophisticated and looks like something out of a sci-fi film. We call that nature just doing its thing. How come our skyscrapers and cities are seen differently? In my opinion, the answer is that it is a very effective way to morally separate ourselves from problems we inflict on our environment or on other species.

Nemo's latest task was to add a toggle to the dashboard. He delivered an abstracted, modular event-handling engine with algebraic constraints and a recursive effect system that reifies toggle intentions into a monadic signal flow.