Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum:

Jean-Pierre Hébert: Drawing with the Mind, organized by Elaine LeVasseur

and

BLOOM PROJECTS: Julien Audebert.

Aug. 30 – Nov. 11

CAF will present a major, solo exhibition by Santa Barbara artist Jean-Pierre Hébert, In the early 70’s, Hébert became one of the world’s first artists to co-opt computer code as an essential medium. Expressing ideas in lines of code Hébert then then “proves them” by teaching a variety of computer-driven devices to create drawings for him, resulting in an oeuvre that is simultaneously amazing, beautiful, and meditative. For Bloom Projects, CAF will feature the work of Paris-based artist Julien Audebert. Audebert’s work questions the mass reproduction of imagery by challenging the limits of printing. Miniaturizing text to the point of total abstraction, Audebert returns to the tradition of micrography. Retranscribing the Bible, great speeches, and major works of critical theory in this abstracted form to indicate towards the fall of ideologies and the limits of perception.

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