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Niche.LA Presents:

"Wireless"
New Work by Rex Bruce

March 9-April 1, 2006
Opening Reception: March 9, 8-10pm


In his new series "Wireless" Los Angeles artist Rex Bruce presents images and
videos taken
with a cell phone camera where the subject is the "air" in which mobile
communications
are transmitted. Within the abject looking sky-scapes the very tops of golden
arches,
street lamps, vernacular decoration and architecture jut upwards into the frame.
Often
included are telephone poles and slack wires strung between them, an ironic
choice
considering the instrument with which they were photographed.

Many of the minute VGA images are printed into enormous proportions, where the
artifacts of low-resolution, a tiny lens, and uncontrolled hues come to
constitute the style
of the artwork. The content of the work, the moody quality of their saturated
colors and
their mottled textures impart a sense of the ever "grungy" aspect of life in Los
Angeles
that is infused with the commerce driven pop-surreality pervasive to the look of
the city. A
cogent "connection" is made here, as the contemporary current of millions of
wireless calls
have become the primary agency of creation in Los Angeles. The result are
humorous and
lyrical works of compelling beauty.

Other works in the exhibit are composites of multiple images simulating physics
based
analysis of mobile transmissions that "show" wave propagation and are used to
assist in
tower/repeater placement in the streets of urban environments. These painterly
looking
abstractions allude to an invisible "spirit world" created by the totality of
immeasurable
activity around us in the "air" of the wireless ether.