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SUNY Orange show explores when technology blends into art

| 10 Aug 2012 | 01:01
    This painting by Carol Flaitz is called "Fissure."
    This painting by Carol Flaitz is called "Fissure."
    Artist Carol Flaitz of Newburgh paints in mixed media and her work will be on display at SUNY Orange later this month and next in a show that explores when technology blends into art.
    Artist Carol Flaitz of Newburgh paints in mixed media and her work will be on display at SUNY Orange later this month and next in a show that explores when technology blends into art.
    This mixed media paintings by Carol Flaitz is entitled: "Nanobeemerís World."
    This mixed media paintings by Carol Flaitz is entitled: "Nanobeemerís World."

MIDDLETOWN — “One Billionth of a Meter: Artistic Reflections on the World of Nanotechnology” is the title of the show by Carol Flaitz with digital artists Cris Orfescu, Bjoern Daempfling, Robert Fairfax, Zilda Maria Matheus, Frances Geesin, Chris Robinson and Anna Ursyn that opens Aug. 27 and will continue through Sept. 28 in Orange Hall Gallery.
Flaitz and the digital artists whose works will be on display are part of the NanoArt21 movement which explores the world of the electron microscope through artists’ eyes. The digital artists reside in five countries other the United States.
Flaitz, who lives in Newburgh, paints in mixed media. As she is a graduate of Alfred University’s College of Ceramics, her works have a three-dimensionality to them.
Her paintings explore the amalgamation of technology and art and reflect the relationship of humans to the barrage of today’s technology.
Her husband, Dr. Phil Flaitz, is a materials science/senior engineer at IBM. Through photographs taken on his electron microscope, she has viewed the interior of computer chips - microscopic images, and considers them a new visual frontier. From these images she creates rich textured works of mysterious electronic landscapes.
In addition, Carol and Phil Flaitz will present a master class, entitled “Science and Art: Walking the Tightrope ~ NanoArt2,” about these microscopic explorations with the artistic results on Tuesday, Sept. 25, at 11 a.m. in Orange Hall Gallery.
Both the exhibit and master class are free and open to the public.
Orange Hall is located at the corner of Wawayanda and Grandview avenues, Middletown on the campus of SUNY Orange. Questions may be directed to 845-341-4891 and cultural@sunyorange.edu. More information also is available online at www.sunyorange.edu/culturalaffairs.