Diane Rosenstein Gallery is pleased to offer a selection of important drone paintings by new media artist, KATSU. This viewing room is live from Thursday, July 8 at 7:00 am (PT)/10:00 am (ET) through Sunday, July 18 at 9:00 pm (PT)/12:00 am (ET).
The gallery will offer works from the artist's ongoing series of Dots, Portraits, Smiles, and Flowers paintings. All works are signed (unless noted) and are not framed.
KATSU’s drone paintings are the 21st Century’s "action paintings"-- residing at an intersection of gesture and loss of control. These paintings are created in a symbiotic gestural application of atomized enamel paint sprayed by a remotely controlled customized quadrocopter drone onto an acrylic coated canvas. The drone is a semi-autonomous collaborator. Drones are voyeurs and recorders, used to exploit access and proximity as image-gathering devices. In KATSU’s practice, the drone’s purpose is subverted; it is an image creator.
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ENSŌ drone training. Video: December, 2019 (©2019 KATSU, Courtesy @katsubot)
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About
KATSU (USA, b. 1982) is a new media artist based in New York City. His works involve technology, public intervention and include commentary on commercialism, privacy and digital culture. As a result, his practice includes drone painting, sculpture, digital media, conceptual works and crypto art. KATSU’s visual and digital projects question notions of reality, fiction, and ‘graffiti,’ by conceptually integrating ideas of vandalism with commercialism and technology.
KATSU was a research fellow with Free Art and Technology Lab, a collective of creative technologists and hacker artists (2007-2015). Recent solo exhibitions include BITS at Evergold Projects, San Francisco; DOT at The Hole, New York City (2020); and DRONE at Diane Rosenstein Gallery, Los Angeles (2018). He was included in Beyond The Streets (curated by Roger Gastman) in Los Angeles, CA (2018). In 2015 he created Dronescape Summer for Coney Art Walls (curated by Joseph J. Sitt and Jeffrey Deitch), and was included in Born in the Streets – Graffiti at the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain in Paris (2009-10). He earned his BFA from Parsons School of Design, NY (2005).
The artist works between Brooklyn and San Francisco.
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Portraits
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DOTS I
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Smiles I
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SMILES II
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Drone is Drone
Human is Drone
Canvas is Drone
Phone is Drone
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DRONE FLOWERS
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