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ABOUT
RUDY LEMCKE
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Rudy Lemcke is an artist who lives and works in San Francisco, California. His paintings and sculpture have been exhibited in such venues as: The Whitney Museum of Art, The DeYoung Museum, The University Art Museum at Berkeley, The San Francisco Art Institute, The Grey Gallery in New York, and Modernism Gallery in San Francisco.
His video works have been shown internationally in venues such as, the Dallas Video Festival, the Mix Festival, San Francisco's Frameline Film Festival, Hallwalls, ATA Gallery, Stoney Brook University, SUNY (Framingdale), and the Festival Nemo in Paris.
He was an instructor of Web Design and Motion Graphics at San Francisco State Multimedia Studies Program from 1999-2003 and is now a free lance web developer and video producer.
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ABOUT
THIS SITE
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The recent video projects on this site represent a continuation of themes that have occupied my work throughout the past two decades.
The work explores the inescapable given (the always, already) of language which haunts my artwork and leads me further into its labyrinth of illuminated paths, dark detours, dead ends, curious twists and turns, and games of logic and nonsense.
In past work I have experimented with conceptual music and performance scores, worked (and continue to work) on a series of time based, abstract diary paintings, and have explored social and political systems—both in the physical space of public art and in the virtual space of the Internet.
In exploring video, as with other visual media, I often use text as an underlying structure of the work—dissociated from the visual language of the medium; as narrative used for and against interpretation; as a visual object in itself—text as image; and also used its absence as an oppositional "other" to narrative—abandoning text altogether and working with visual abstraction.
Acknowledging the impossibility of representing—in art—the totality of lived experience, I have accepted the ever-present tension between interpretation and intention, word and image, language and the world, and continue to work—leaving a thread of artworks like those that weave through this exhibition, in hopes that someone will follow, and attempt my rescue.
Rudy Lemcke
February 2004
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Rudy Lemcke 540 Alabama Street #322, San Francisco, CA 94110
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