Take the kids to an art opening tonight

If by any chance you have some free time tonight, please stop by this event for the new artists web project at Dia. The work that will be shown is fun, kids (and adults) love it, and there'll be laptops displaying ten of the artist-created screensavers. There will be drinks & some food and the artist will be there.

Here's a description of the work:? 

In Wrestling with the Blob Beast, Johnson presents a collection of sixteen animated screensavers. Derived from painting, they cover a wide field, ranging from formal studies where color is a primary concern, to quiet nature scenes like a campfire at night, to vignettes where figure and abstraction appear to be in active battle, as in several pieces where hands appear to wrestle with paint which morphs into a dog's face and then reverts to paint strokes. While the wrestling pieces serve as humorous metaphors for the sometimes arduous endeavor of painting, others suggest a more serene relationship, such as Fly, in which a tiny painted airplane inches across a wet, painted sky.

Web-Based Project by Artist Ezra Johnson
Opening Reception Thursday, April 17, 2008 from 6pm to 8pm
Dia Art Foundation
535 West 22nd Street, 5th Floor
New York, NY 10011
212 989 5566