From smartphones to closed-circuit surveillance systems, these days it seems a rare occurrence not to be on camera. But does ubiquitous screen time capture life's details or blur them? Kon Trubkovich, a Russian-born, New York-based artist, has made a name for himself by incorporating video glitches into his paintings.
For his "Transmission" series, Trubkovich made paintings of paused video stills, capturing glitches and blurry ghosts of images down to the pixel. The result is a willfully distorted yet oddly familiar reality, rendered using carefully placed brushstrokes.
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Trubkovich, born 1979, had his first solo exhibition at Museum 52 in May 2007. His artist biography for that show referenced Jasper Johns' idea of "
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