Gary Schubert’s art exhibit is on display at MAC Benedum Gallery
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Monongalia Arts Center hosts an exhibit by Gary Schubert, “France in Superblue,” featuring infrared and Superblue photography. The works will be on display through Thursday in MAC’s Benedum Gallery.
Schubert — a painter, printmaker, photographer, digital artist and art collector — earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in painting and a Master of Science in computer science.
He studied painting under Tom Nakashima and photography under Lucien Clergue. Schubert works primarily in photography and computational art.
His work is in many private and public collections, including the Huntington Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Schubert is a retired professor of art and computer science. He is a senior life member of the Association for Computing Machinery and a SIGGRAPH Pioneer (Digital Effects Inc. NYC).
Additionally, he is a member of the Art Alliance of Central Pennsylvania and on the Bellefonte Art Museum Artists Registry of Centre County Pennsylvania as well as the West Virginia Artists Registry.
“During WVU Spring Break 2019, I was fortunate to have traveled to France with professors Michael Sherwin and Rhonda Reymond and their photography and art history classes,” Schubert said. “I wanted to interpret France in a different way — not as the usual postcard pretty traveler snapshots.
“My approach was to use a digital camera converted to Superblue. In the Superblue camera, the sensor has a specially installed filter that allows only blue, infrared and ultraviolet light to pass. Blue is of course a frequency of light we can see. However infrared and ultraviolet, invisible to our eyes, are nevertheless recorded by the digital camera’s sensor.
“These SuperBlue light frequencies are interpreted as red, green, blue colors with very interesting, if not completely arbitrary, results. I often shoot recording .jpg monochrome and .raw of every image. When I view these types of images, I enjoy the transition from monochrome to color and decided to make this slideshow presentation using the approach of gray transition to the false color as recorded by the sensor. Hence this show.”
For the show, Schubert said he printed the images as diptychs, so that the images could be examined and the difference between monochrome and color Superblue images could be appreciated.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the MAC is now operating under new hours. The lobby gift shop and Benedum Gallery are open to the public from 3-7 p.m. every weekday.
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