Graham Krenz
De-viced
May 23–June 21, 2003

Steven Haigh will create an interactive environment that envelops the audience within a series of life-sized, figurative oil paintings. Embedding electronic devices that are controlled via the internet (and function in relation to a website) into his otherwise static figure paintings, Haigh challenges one of the key facets of the “painterly tradition”: the artist makes use of the “expressionistically sincere” practice of painting with its static, unchanging qualities and forcefully amalgamates it with the more dynamic and impersonal structures of tech media.