You see more about the person’s history when physically close to the picture and more about their appearance when stepping away: this seems an appropriate metaphor for how we see people in general. – Blake Hurt
An award-winning exhibitor, Blake Hurt is a digital artist–exclusively creating digital portraits that blur the arts of traditional printmaking and photography. In addition, he writes and publishes papers on the history of digital art and the creative applications of computers, computer programming and commercially available software. From 1995-2000, Hurt studied painting under Richard Crozier at the University of Virginia. By 2004 Hurt was exhibiting his seminal portraiture.
Hurt’s technique, which he calls, “ink collage,” involves a family of original software programs. By layering several drawings, one on top of another, he creates a wirelike digital framework. Through these dark lines, colors from an underlying image are digitally “squeezed” through the mosaic-like openings. Interestingly, seeing the picture in its entirety requires that it be physically printed since computer screens are too small in their resolution to show the full image.
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