Homage

Last night I attended the opening of a memorial exhibition of the work of Jan Groover. It was held at SUNY Purchase, where she taught for many years. Although I studied with her at School of Visual Arts, her students from several institutions have found each other and have formed a tight community over the years. It was great fun to see and connect with everyone. 

My new video work (attached below), Composition 117, was done in homage to both Jan Groover and Barbara Crane, two greats in the field. I did this work when I got back from residency in Jan. This is not my thesis work. I am still working on the Hudson River for thesis. I made this work on a whim, just to kind of distance myself a bit form the River series and to make something new. More on Hudson River project soon. I am working out the specifics on that, and of course, the written thesis.

Jan Groover, Untitled, 1975

Barbara Crane, Pigeons, Whole Roll, 1975




Rita Maas, Composition 117, 2013
4 minute loop

River Redux

Back in studio and going over residency notes. I decided to go back and have a second go round with the Hudson River series. In each panel I have taken 12 files and layered them on top of each other, lightening the opacity so you can see one through the other.

 Each paired panel represents the sky and water of the 6 locations I have so far covered. So in one image you are viewing about an hour of the river. The two on the left represent all of the images layered on top of each other.

Here is a detail of the two images that have all the images layered.

Hope you get the idea.