Lin Giralt

I’m a Digital Transformer, converting images on my computer from both family pictures, landscapes and images self-generated using Powerpoint® or other off the shelf programs.

My work is focused on identifying tensions and opportunities to discover images or messages hidden in the original work or image. Mostly I start looking for tensions and contrasts in form or color or patterns. Some are related to nature, some to people or objects, but many are geometric identities striving to be created and discovered.

I am fascinated by the Pointillists, but where they used their brush, I use electronic pixels. I admire Mondrian, Van Doesburg and also the Fauvists, Russian Suprematists and Constructivists. I seek abstraction, simplification and powerful colors. Sometimes the image is asking for the exact opposite: complexity, balanced tones and a more diffuse treatment. Some images want to be in color, others drive to Black and White.

My ‘style’ is as varied as the images I use or create. Luckily, with technology, I have been able to explore various areas with different degrees of success and impact. I take an image and pixelate, crystalize, invert colors, distort, crop, invert, paste, and seek to select details to blow up and exp...

High School:
St. Paul's School, Concord, NH, 1972
Colegio Santiago de León, Caracas, Venezuela, 1973

Duke University, B.A., 1977
Rice University, M. Architecture, 1982
The Wharton School, MBA, 1992

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