“It’s Official!”

Hello world! “The Caboose” has just left the station! Welcome to my initial foray into the wonderful world of blogging. It is my sincerest hope that you will be informed (tremendously), entertained (always) and maybe, even a little inspired to try something new or look at something in a completely different way. Since we are in the inaugural spirit of things, let’s move forward and christen this bad boy with my first blog entry of 2012.

 

Today was the official launching of my solo exhibition “The Pixel Made Me Do It!” at Rowan University of Glassboro, N.J. A little while in the making, “The Pixel Made Me Do It” is finally ready for prime time.

 

The feeling? No words. Only smiles.

 

Installation went without a hitch, and as always, my Rowan family was extremely helpful. The show consists of 13 pieces that form the thesis for my senior exhibition (yes, commencement WILL happen this May 11). While I won’t post every single piece in this entry, I will share my promotional piece and curatorial statement. Aaaaaand, maybe a piece or two (wink, wink). I am looking forward to the official reception on March 29, 2012. SO COME OUT and get down with a little art!

 

As for future entries, keep an eye out for some tutorials, some technique and process, and a little personal philosophy and inspiration.

 

Peace, love and all of the sweet gushy stuff in between!

 

Curatorial Statement:

 

With a window-seat-view into the whimsical, “The Pixel Made Me Do It!” is a mystic transport sailing across a playful landscape of exploding soda pop bottles and
beer-guzzling superheroes. A requiem to the fantastic, “The Pixel Made Me Do It!” evokes contemplation, smiles, and at times, the welcomed chuckle. This exhibition centers itself on the exploration of Samuel Guerrero, Jr.’s otherworldly ideas, which are realized via whirling hard drives, buzzing workstations and data-crunching software– all tools of choice by the artist. Crafted by the hidden “0s” and “1s” beneath the binary canvas, the images expressed in this exhibit are visual sonatas of a digital voice that passionately serenade its way into the artist’s heart, philosophy and work. Thanks to Russell Kirsch and his team of scientists in the 1950s the pixel (abbreviation for picture element) is the smallest component of a digital image and is as meaningful to the work of Samuel Guerrero, Jr., as the finely painted dot had became so critical to the pointillist world of Georges Seurat. Imagine. Without the innovation of something so fundamental as the pixel… this exhibit would not be possible.

 

Polite or irreverent, abrasive or soft, impassive or poignant-no matter what the
intention is, the language and sensibility always remains the same for each piece in
this exhibition: always keep it fun. Each of the illustrations presented is a tapestry woven from the yarn of digital goodness. From a satirical and skewed view of heroism in
“I Am–BEER MAN!” or the caricature of human lust in “Charmed”, each work presented by the artist is a narrative that takes hold of the familiar and wraps it in a warm and fuzzy blanket of dreamy possibilities.

 

A respite from life’s routine cadence, this exhibition becomes a repository of levity mixed with equal portions of optimism. It is an attempt to reveal the artistic proclivities that drive Samuel Guerrero, Jr. while reminding the audience that in our immediate universe, where everything deconstructs itself to the minimalistic atom, the fanciful 64-bit universe that thrives in “The Pixel Made Me Do It!” begins with a simple thought, a mouse click and of course… the venerable pixel.