Contemporary New Jersey artist shows “Analog Surrealism”

The James Kearny Campus Gallery hosts a solo exhibition featuring work by New Jersey based digital contemporary artist Phillip McConnell, titled “Analog Surrealism.”
The exhibition, in the gallery at Mercer County Community College in Trenton, N.J., is curated by photographer, scholar, and curator Michael Chovan-Dalton and will be on view through Dec. 4.
“Analog Surrealism” features 16 new works by McConnell, which are the exploration of not only a new body of work but a new style for him. This body of work juxtaposes two different mediums (photography and digital art) against each other to create something vibrant and fresh. This is a new take on the aesthetic medium of Glitch Art in which the artist is used to working.

Glitch Art is the aesthetic of digital errors, created by corrupting the data of pictures. To create the work, a picture file is converted into text files and the data of the picture is manually manipulated by adding or subtracting color codes and by taking pieces of other pictures and blending them with each other. Once the images are distorted enough, they are combined.
The pieces in the show vary in size as well as subject matter. For information, visit the artist online, or go to jkcgallery.online.

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