Sarah Meyohas’s Tech-Art Explores the Mechanics of Perception #ArtTuesday

Sarah Meyohas’s Tech-Art Explores the Mechanics of Perception #ArtTuesday

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Sarah Meyohas is an artist who works with tech. Her work as ranged from film, photography, virtual reality, performance art and sculpture. Last spring she presented an exhibit at Marianne Boesky, in New York. Nice profile from W Magazine:

Her latest body of work has less conceptual sleight-of-hand but even more technical wizardry. For the show at Marianne Boesky, she created sculptures out of holograms and diffraction gratings. (The latter is a device used to manipulate light that is often employed in spectroscopy and telecommunications.) Meyohas—whose red bob and wide-set eyes make her resemble a Millennial Shirley Temple—spent months trying to convince the grating manufacturer to work with an artist. “I had to show them I was willing to pay,” she explains. “They don’t want their time to be wasted.”

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