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Simon Ingram 'Hodgkins Study No. 1'
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Simon Ingram
Description
Simon Ingram
Hodgkins Study No. 1, 2024
signed and dated verso
oil on linen
400 x 300mm
Artist information
Simon Ingram
b. 1971, Wellington
Lives and works in Auckland
Simon Ingram has engaged in a decades-long examination of painting and technology. At the heart of his practice is an interest in human responses to new technologies. To Ingram, painting is a way to explore those encounters. His work connects to a recurrent theme in painting since the invention of the camera. From the ‘blank flash of the magnesium flare’ of Edouard Manet’s Olympia, to the telephone paintings of Laszlo Maholy-Nagy, or the factory-like production conditions of Warhol’s silkscreens, painters have found various ways to incorporate emergent technologies into their work.
Ingram’s interest in the idea of machines and systems as a means to explore painting has moved through several iterations. He has created paintings using custom machine assemblages that translate data, interpreting signals from a wide range of sources including cosmic radiation and brain waves to generate paintings. He has also used machine learning tools to generate imagery. This exploration has seen him experiment with other disciplines including computer science and radio astronomy, and he notes that his works can be seen as science experiments as well as artworks.
Ingram’s work has been exhibited in a wide range of contexts over the past two decades, including private galleries, public museums, and project spaces in Australasia, Europe, and the USA. Exhibition highlights include the curated project Minus Space at MOMA’s P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in Long Island City, New York and solo show Radio Painting Station: Looking for the Waterhole at ZKM in Karlsruhe, Germany in 2017. He holds a Doctorate from Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland (2006) where he is now a Senior Lecturer. He has won notable awards, including the University of Auckland Best Doctoral Thesis Award (2007). His work is held in key national and international public and private collections including the collection of Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki.
Simon Ingram has exhibited with Gow Langsford Gallery since 2008.
Hodgkins Study No. 1, 2024
signed and dated verso
oil on linen
400 x 300mm
Artist information
Simon Ingram
b. 1971, Wellington
Lives and works in Auckland
Simon Ingram has engaged in a decades-long examination of painting and technology. At the heart of his practice is an interest in human responses to new technologies. To Ingram, painting is a way to explore those encounters. His work connects to a recurrent theme in painting since the invention of the camera. From the ‘blank flash of the magnesium flare’ of Edouard Manet’s Olympia, to the telephone paintings of Laszlo Maholy-Nagy, or the factory-like production conditions of Warhol’s silkscreens, painters have found various ways to incorporate emergent technologies into their work.
Ingram’s interest in the idea of machines and systems as a means to explore painting has moved through several iterations. He has created paintings using custom machine assemblages that translate data, interpreting signals from a wide range of sources including cosmic radiation and brain waves to generate paintings. He has also used machine learning tools to generate imagery. This exploration has seen him experiment with other disciplines including computer science and radio astronomy, and he notes that his works can be seen as science experiments as well as artworks.
Ingram’s work has been exhibited in a wide range of contexts over the past two decades, including private galleries, public museums, and project spaces in Australasia, Europe, and the USA. Exhibition highlights include the curated project Minus Space at MOMA’s P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in Long Island City, New York and solo show Radio Painting Station: Looking for the Waterhole at ZKM in Karlsruhe, Germany in 2017. He holds a Doctorate from Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland (2006) where he is now a Senior Lecturer. He has won notable awards, including the University of Auckland Best Doctoral Thesis Award (2007). His work is held in key national and international public and private collections including the collection of Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki.
Simon Ingram has exhibited with Gow Langsford Gallery since 2008.
