Wave Reflections: An Immersion in Light & Sound by John Spears & Jeff Talman is a New Hope Arts Showcase, running through Dec. 3.
Spears’ visuals and Talman’s sound create a sensory environment in a collaborative exhibition featuring visual art in an enveloping sound matrix.
A reception for the artists will be held from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 10..
Talman, composer and sound artist, creates work that is known for its unique timbres, spatial gesture, harmony, expression and resonance in an extended symphonic form. These compositions are experienced as traversable gallery/alternate-site installations, in 4-D quasi-concert style. Talman frequently collaborates with scientists and audio specialists creating works within cosmic, natural and spiritual contexts.
NASA, The New York Times, BBC, NPR, Wired Magazine and German national television have recognized his broadcast, print and internet work. The Los Angeles Times named his Mt. Wilson Observatory installation “Of Sound Before the Stars” as a Best Classical Music of 2019 selection.
Awards include over three dozen artist residencies domestic and international, Fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and funding from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Spears has been making art since the mid 1970s. His work uses the silk screen process and ultraviolet pigments viewed as an installation with LED and ultraviolet lights. His method transcends any particular school of thought and might be considered a stream of consciousness approach to using the silk screen as an open door to painting and multi-media art. The resultant visual effects transform the work into “a stunning new image.”
Spears installations are collected by numerous corporate and private collections. His museum exhibits include the San Jose Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Art, and the Morris Museum of Art. In January 2021 his exhibition “Illusions of Light,” thrilled New Hope Arts gallery goers in the first gallery show after the return of live exhibitions.
This pairing of media by John Spears and Jeff Talman was conceived and curated by Rita Romanova Gekht. Installation with Scott Reamer. Sound engineering by Jeff Talman with contributions by Kevin Bulger.
New Hope Arts is located at 2 Stockton Ave., New Hope. Gallery hours are noon to 5 p.m. Friday, Saturday and Sunday and by appointment. Visit www.newhopearts.org.
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