Busacca Gallery

Silver, from Anduin Vaid's Assembly Series is the most complicated and complex member of its series, with over a hundred layers, some overlapping, as well as a constructed composition containing two canvases mounted upon a third. Metal is infused into the painting's surface (nickel, silver, and steel) to create a hard cold mirror, broken by other mixed media that hide beneath, bellowing out texture and breaks. This work is extremely heavy and fragile due to its metal contents, and the shipping price has been adjusted accordingly. Silver, Assembly Series, is from the artist's personal reserve of works, and was put into storage in his humidity-controlled cedar-lined studio immediately after completion.

Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodern_art

Intermedia and multi-media



Another trend in art which has been associated with the term postmodern is the use of a number of different media together. Intermedia, a term coined by Dick Higgins and meant to convey new artforms along the lines of Fluxus, Concrete Poetry, Found objects, Performance art, and Computer art. Higgins was the publisher of the Something Else Press, a Concrete poet, married to artist Alison Knowles and an admirer of Marcel Duchamp. Ihab Hassan includes, "Intermedia, the fusion of forms, the confusion of realms," in his list of the characteristics of postmodern art.[51] One of the most common forms of "multi-media art" is the use of video-tape and CRT monitors, termed Video art. While the theory of combining multiple arts into one art is quite old, and has been revived periodically, the postmodern manifestation is often in combination with performance art, where the dramatic subtext is removed, and what is left is the specific statements of the artist in question or the conceptual statement of their action. Higgin's conception of Intermedia is connected to the growth of multimedia digital practice such as immersive virtual reality, digital art and computer art.