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X-Rays & 35mm Negatives Become Faces in Nick Gentry's Paintings

Nick Gentry recycles obsolete media to create the textured film portraits he'll display at the Robert Fontaine Gallery exhibition on November 8.

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Artist Nick Gentry skirts the great debate about the relevance of film in the digital age with his latest portrait series, Synthetic Daydreams, which uses discarded film negatives as the canvases for his nearly life-like portraits.

Gentry has a history of reviving less controversally obsolete media for his art, i.e. floppy disks, for his paintings, but the mediums of 35mm film and X-rays on glass takes his "use of contributed artefacts and materials" to a different level of artistic interaction. Not only do the portraits conjur the images of the people Gentry paints, but they build on those images using the people, places, and things encapsulated in each celluloid frame. Despite the scuffs, scratches, and sprocket holes evident in the film Gentry selects, the skin tones and shading maintain the humanizing details of each visage.

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Gentry's solo exhibition of Synthetic Daydreams is set to open in Miami, Florida at the Robert Fontaine Gallery during Wynwood's Second Saturday Art Walk Miami starting Nov. 8. It's a gallery experience you might want to grab some popcorn for.

Gaze into Gentry's Synthetic Dreams below:

Visit Gentry's website to see more of his work, or head to the Robert Fontaine Gallery website to learn about the exhibition.

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