Author: Dev Harlan

Areo Gardens – Selected for Niio Art Competition

Excited to have work from this new series selected for the open call digital art competition “Samsung The Wall x Niio Art / Digital Realism”

This series of animated short films depicts surreal and sublime natural geology in the solar system. Scans of natural rocks and boulders captured in many parts of the world using 3D photogrammetry are set above a Martian landscape captured by the NASA/JPL HiRise Imager. The stones depicted in Areo Gardens include boulders from Joshua Tree, California, an abandoned quarry in Syracuse NY and volcanic stone formations from the coast of Senegal.

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“Pooltime!” public art pavilion and sculpture in Flushing Meadows Corona Park


POOLTIME is a public artwork by artists Cheryl Wing-Zi Wong and Dev Harlan. In conjunction with NYC Parks, the pavilion has been installed at the north end of Meadow Lake in Flushing Meadows Corona Park and will be exhibited until summer 2020. POOLTIME is a public pavilion and series of community programming centered around the rich history of the Park as a site for the 1939 and 1964 World’s Fairs. POOLTIME activates an underused public space and aims to discuss the World’s Fair structures and their architectural lives and meaning post-exhibition.

More Information here:
http://www.cherdevalonius.com/pooltime/

“Parmenides I” at CUNY Oswego sculpture program

“Parmenides I” was selected for CUNY Oswego’s rotating public art program. The 8′ diameter aluminum sculpture has previously been exhibited indoors with video projection indoors. Outdoors it lives comfortably in it’s naked object hood. The sculpture will be installed on campus for 2 years.

Wonder Valley Iron Age Slab I

The sculpture is a surface casting of exposed rock near the Iron Age mine site in Wonder Valley. Video projection mapping uses tones and textures from photogrammetry scans of this and other geological work.

“After Images” at Northern-Southern Gallery

“After Images” is a two-person show with myself and painter Laura Lit, curated by Phillip Niemeyer. The work is on view from January 20th – March 15th, 2018 at Northern-Southern Gallery, Austin, TX.

Astral Fissure III (Revisited)

Astral Fissures (III) is a light sculpture installed in the house of a private collector in Singapore. This year I was recommissioned to develop new video works for the sculpture, as well some upgrades and improvements to the system.