Madison Brookshire

Los Angeles, CA

Number Series

Co-Presented with Cinema Project

DESCRIPTION

Exploring perception through subtle changes of light and color over time, Madison Brookshire's Number Series presents expanded works of soft-edged rectangles-on-rectangles, created through the mechanics of film projection itself. Each film requires two 16mm projectors, with each projecting a reel of gradually shifting color that overlaps on a single screen. At times, the overlapping colors add up to white or gray, creating an uncanny experience of color as both presence and absence. Colors also extend across the film reels' optical soundtracks to produce seams of understated white noise, such that what is heard is a delayed, light-interpreted version of what is seen. Selections from the Number Series will be performed with Brookshire in attendance.

Cinema Project is a volunteer- and collectively- run nonprofit organization based in Portland, Oregon, working since 2003 to promote public awareness of experimental cinema of the past and present. 

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Madison Brookshire lives in Los Angeles, CA, where he makes films, paintings, and performances. His work invites viewers to become aware of perceptual processes and the sensuous experience of time. He frequently collaborates with musicians and composers, such as Ezra Buchla, LCollective, Laura Steenberge, Mark So, and Tashi Wada.