Darcy Gerbarg is a Pioneer Digital Artist. She creates her work using both digital technologies and traditional Fine Art techniques.
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DARCY'S PAINTING AND SCULPTURE GARDEN
Light Sculptures and Billboard Paintings
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Artist's Statement
For me, VR is like scuba diving, a complete immersion in another world. Unlike snorkeling, where one views the world below, the VR world is all around you and with the right software, I can weightlessly play with and put brush strokes of colored light in space all around myself, unrestricted by the limitations and constraints of a 2-dimensional picture plane. I have been looking for this 3D capability since the early 1980’s and I have tried many technologies that have purported to provide this option. Still, creating the 3DVR ‘paintings’ is only one step in my current working process. My goal is a finished, stretched and framed picture to hang on a wall, not the 3D immersive environment itself. Though I use digital technology, I still think of myself as a painter, one who is painting with colored light in a 3D virtual world. I still want to get my images out of the computer into the real world. I do this by cropping potential pictures out of the 3DVR light painting, which floats in the VR space all around me like a colorful weightless light sculpture.
I learned about cropping pictures in Larry Poons’ studio with Clement Greenberg in the early 1970’s. One advantage of cropping something created in 3DVR is that the lighting model which makes things visible in the virtual world, enables the cropped image to retain the visual 3D effect on the 2D canvas. Much the same way that traditional shaded figures on a canvas look three dimensional, the 3DVR shading creates the visual illusion of 3D brush strokes in space on the 2D picture plane.
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Exhibitions
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Darcy's Painting and Sculpture Garden
Immersive interactive Experience in AltspaceVR - Ongoing 'By combining the traditional medium of paint with high technological virtual environments, Darcy Gerbarg creates a new narrative around abstract expressionism.' Gerbarg incorporates the artifacts of the times, 'traces of... -
Virtual Art Gallery Exhibition
AltspaceVR - Ongoing The Syracuse Pictures and Inside and Outside Pictures To inquire about these paintings: Contact us -
Hamptons Virtual Art Fair 2020
Darcy Gerbarg, Invited 3D VR Painter September 2 - 7, 2020 Darcy Gerbarg is an abstract expressionist painter who pioneered the use of computers in her painting process. Beginning in 1979, she continues to be a visiting artist at groundbreaking computer... -
CADAF International On-Line Art Fair 2020
June 25 - 28, 2020 For over 30 years, Gerbarg has been creating artworks using traditional art techniques with digital technologies. Her formalist approach to abstract color field painting reflects her classical training at the... -
CADAF ART MIAMI 2019
December 1 - 7, 2019 The Inside and Outside Immersive Painting Experience Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Concept Illustration To inquire about these paintings: Contact us -
Time Changes Everything
Point of Contact Gallery, Syracuse NY July 1 - 6, 2019 To inquire about these paintings: Contact us -
Darcy Gerbarg – Paintings in Virtual Space – Curated by David S. Rubin
Castelli Art Space, Los Angeles, CA March 18 - 24, 2019 ONE WOMAN SHOW Curated by David S Rubin -
Inside and Outside Works
The Mercantile Gallery, Syracuse, NY January 1 - 2, 2019 To inquire about these paintings: Contact us
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DARCY GERBARG The new generation of 3DVR ART
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