Yuki Maruyama
Residency & Exhibition
January 1 - 26, 2020
Opening Reception - January 10, 6-9pm
Stylistically rooted in comics and sequential art, Yuki is inspired by the ever-expanding potential of drawing and by the elastic nature of visual perception. For her Adobe Books Backroom Gallery project, she will create an immersive red-and-cyan drawing installation that explores the effect of binocular rivalry, i.e. the optical experience produced by anaglyph 3D glasses— its full impact can only be encountered in person.
To the bare eye, the gallery space will produce a dynamic retinal vibration of its own (by virtue of the relationships between the equally high chroma red and cyan colors). When viewed through a pair of 3D glasses, the picture will flicker between two- and three- dimensions, background and foreground, positive and negative space. The result is an electric internal tension that feels at once physical and psychological, anxious and euphoric.
After an initial installation week, Yuki will spend the following weeks adding and subtracting details, patterns, and other elements to the piece— the pictorial space will continually evolve over time. She will provide individually screen-printed 3D glasses; the viewing apparatus, and by extension the viewer, become active participants in the image. Multiple viewing opportunities will be organized for the public over the course of the month.
