Frank Gillette’s Anthropic Blues
Frank Gillette presents Spectra Obscura at Microscope Gallery, a multimedia exhibition featuring three-channel video installations, single-channel works, and Polaroid photographs exploring ecological decay and vanishing natural systems. The show incorporates ambient soundscapes derived from field recordings of Eastern Long Island woodlands and beaches, layered with percussive and distorted electronic elements drawn from Gillette’s Symbiotic Blues trilogy (2017–22). Key works include Blackseer (2022) and Symptomatic Syntax (1981), the latter pairing aquatic close-ups with philosophical narration sourced from J.M.E. Taggart’s The Unreality of Time. Spanning six decades of practice, Gillette’s oeuvre constructs an idiosyncratic visual ecology attuned to environmental devastation and the fractured entanglement of nature and human culture, emphasizing themes of deterioration, impermanence, and microscopic temporality.
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