Saturday, September 3rd from 7-10pm The Box Gallery cordially invites you to the Opening Reception of Gartel: Media Blitz Palm Beach. The Box Gallery proudly presents the exhibition from September 3 – October 1, 2022. This Event is Free & Open to the Public / RSVP HERE.
ABOUT LAURENCE GARTEL ‘The Father of Digital Art’:
Laurence Gartel, known as the Father of Digital Art has been pioneering the Computer aesthetic for over 45-years. It has been a global journey showing the world a new way to communicate. Gartel and his new visual language sparked interest delivering the keynote speech at the First Pan Pacific Computer Conference in Melbourne, Australia. His arrival triggered much anticipated excitement landing him on the front page of The Australian newspaper in 1985. This was a decade after Gartel discovered analog system computers working with video guru Nam June Paik at Media Study/Buffalo in upstate New York.
Gartel’s early experiments paved the way for today’s creators. Gartel continues to reinvent the medium creating “Welcome to Miami” an installation at the Miami Central Brightline Rail station of large-scale letters wrapped in his Digital Art. His earlier series, “Miami and the Millennium” are 19-back lit light boxes produced in 1995 for the Miami International Airport at Lufthansa Concourse F, then later moved to the Overtown Courthouse Lobby, one of the first buildings, redeveloping the downtown district. More recently Gartel created “Legends of Rock & Roll” for the new Seminole Hard Rock Guitar Hotel Lobby. He was given a historical and humbling plaque; quite an honor to a living artist.
Visitors to The Box Gallery will witness numerous posters, and media announcements to which Gartel says, “are the Art itself. Media is the breath and voice of the artist,” explains Gartel. Box Gallerist Rolando Barrero Chang tells journalists, “Gartel’s work is an avalanche of public awareness.” = “The Artist himself is the Art.” Laurence Gartel has been a South Florida Resident for over 28-years.