bitforms gallery is pleased to announce Illuminations, Claudia Hart’s fifth solo exhibition. Illuminations presents a diverse body of work that pulls from the artist’s vast library of decorative patterns and icons. These symbols incorporate a variety of graphics: the heraldry of failed empires, corporate logos, linguistic pictorial symbols like emoji, mathematical signs, decorative alphabets, and tile patterns culled from world cultures. Hart uses symbols as a basic visual vocabulary to incorporate larger algorithmic patterns that she then animates. The artist’s signs and signifiers flicker, sometimes regularly and sometimes randomly, like techniques used by hypnotists to mesmerize and bring viewers into a trance state. 

Opening Reception: Illuminations by Claudia Hart

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