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Light | Drift
The RMCAD campus was originally a sanatorium and medical research site. Longtime friends and artists Scott Johnson and Ethan Jackson will revert the former sun-room for patients into an eerie gallery using projected hologram images that create a dreamlike atmosphere. Mon-Sat 11 a.m.-4 p.m.

DATE: Oct 15, 2010 4:00 pm     - Dec 3, 2010 4:00 pm   
COST: Free
VENUE: Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design
MORE INFO:
In the Philip J. Steele Gallery is located in the Mary Harris Auditorium Building.

http://www.denverpost.com/art/ci_16641327

ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT
Light does the heavy lifting in duo's multimedia exhibition
By Kyle MacMillan
The Denver Post
POSTED: 11/19/2010 01:00:00 AM MST


(Cyrus McCrimmon | The Denver Post)
In a multimedia exhibition titled "Light Drift," Ethan Jackson and Scott Johnson challenge perceptions via subtle explorations of such polarities as light and dark, calmness and movement, and two- and three-dimensionality.

The focal point of the show at the Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design, 1600 Pierce St. in Lakewood, is a massive camera obscura, which uses a series of simple lenses to project ever-changing images of the sky and surrounding trees onto the ceiling of the school's Rotunda Pavilion.

The collaborative installation harks back to the room's use decades ago as a sunny sanitarium for tuberculosis patients, and the addition of antique beds and a rocking chair reinforces that connection.

On view concurrently in the Steele Gallery are video works and static sculptures by the two artists, who are both graduates of the University of Colorado at Boulder. Johnson is a member of the art faculty at Colorado College, and Jackson resides in Portland, Ore.

Rooted in 1960s and '70s conceptualism, these works build on past artistic experimentation and marry old and new technology in quietly intriguing if not necessarily broadly appealing ways. Kyle MacMillan

"Light Drift" runs through Dec. 3. Free. 303-225-8596 or rmcad.edu/exhibitions.



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If you haven’t already, you all need to check out the new work up on all the gallery spaces. Julie Puma’s Early Onset is in the upstairs Rude Gallery, and Ethan Jackson & Scott Johnson’s Light Drift is in both the Philip J Steele Gallery and the Rotunda.

We will be having an interview with Julie Puma about her show.

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The show I’ve personally become obsessed with is the Camera Obscura in the Rotunda. Maybe it’s a little biased that I, as a Photo Major, would love the camera related show but… have you seen it? It’s so beautiful. These guys did a great job in bringing in the atmosphere that the JCRS patients would’ve seen from the room. You get to experience what it was like in their shoes, for what was possibly their last few months of life.



On the night of the opening Ian Cooke filled the room with the sounds of cello and voice. The music aspect really helped bring the show together. If you do get a chance to see the show, have someone come that knows how to play the piano. You’ll see what we mean.

There was one chair in the middle of the room. When you sit in it you can allow yourself to experience what the patients experience. I had a hard time with this.



After the sun set, the eeriness I have felt on this campus before came through.  Knowing the background of the school and what has happened, what these people suffered through in this building and on this site in general. What happens for them when the sun disappeared? One can get lost in the beauty of our campus, what happened every night when it was no longer visible? I didn’t believe I could handle the true emotions that followed those thoughts so when I decided to finally leave the room. Those patients were strong human beings.

I don’t want to ruin the magic entirely… that said, you should all check out this show. Highly recommended.

and please check out Ian Cooke’s music.

http://www.last.fm/music/Ian+Cooke

- Alejandra Reyes

http://www.rmcad.edu/visiting-artist-scholar-designer-program/2010-12-03/scott-johnson-and-ethan-jackson

Friday, December 3, 2010
RMCAD welcomes artists Scott Johnson and Ethan Jackson for the third installment of our Public Lecture Series, brought to you by the VASD Program. They will give a public lecture at 6:00 pm in the Mary Harris Auditorium on Friday, December 3.

In their lecture, "Converging Parallels," Jackson and Johnson will address the work in their exhibition, Light | Drift and their history of shared interests. They will provide visual and historical context for key aspects of the works in the show and present important works from past years of parallel production. Their discussion will include ideas of vision and representation, art function and practice, and relationships to meaning and rationality. Jackson and Johnson will also address the collaborative process in present and previous works.

Ethan Jackson is a visual artist working in optical installation, lens-based imagery, and photographic media. His current projects are camera obscura based transformations of architectural space into illuminated, contemplative environments. Other works deal with aspects of landscape representation and the notion of place; illusions of space from painting to lens-based representation; themes of violence, mortality and morality in vernacular imagery. He attended the University of Colorado at Boulder and Williams College. He is based in Portland, Oregon. Visit his website at: ethanjackson.net.

Scott Johnson was born in 1969 and grew up in the Colorado Rockies. He obtained his BFA from The University of Colorado at Boulder and his MFA from Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia. His work as an artist has been informed by such as experiences as herding cows on the Navajo Reservation, traveling upon the Silk Road and living in Venice, Italy. He presently teaches at The Colorado College in Colorado Springs. Visit his website at: scjworks.com