Sep 27th - Oct 25th

Opening Reception Saturday, Sep 27th, 5-7pm

Performance
Saturday, Oct 25th, 7pm
by Amulets

Electric Mixer

Featuring work by

Dawn Cerny
Josh Faught
Craig Hickman
Michael Rey
Michael Salter
Kate Steciw
Sarah Wertzberger

Ditch Projects is pleased to present Electric Mixer, featuring work by Dawn Cerny, Josh Faught, Craig Hickman, Michael Rey, Michael Salter, Kate Steciw, and Sarah Wertzberger. The exhibition is curated by Mike Bray and Laura Butler Hughes. For this exhibition, Bray and Hughes bring together artists whose work share a common aesthetic thread inspired by the technology of the 1980s and 1990s, such as digital doodles, screen distortions, and copy and paste.


Craig Hickman’s Kid Pix was one of the first digital art programs, introduced in schools in the 1990s, encouraged curiosity and play with early computers and digital aesthetics. The 80’s and 90’s tech, that a generation of artists grew up with, is now embedded in both their on and off screen work, and can be observed in Dawn Cerny and Michael Salter’s digital, analogue, and spatial drawings; the pucker and bloat-like effect in Michael Rey’s large scale furniture and sculpture; Kate Steciw’s photoshopped and collaged images of wiring and cords, Sara Wertzberger’s woven explorations of color and fiber that feel like digital screen distortion, and Josh Faught’s use of an obsolete 1980’s knitting machine.