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2005 Wooster Arts Space Exhibition Features Six Emerging Artists Exploring Technology's Impact on Nature and Psyche

exhibition · 2026-04-22

From August 31 to October 1, 2005, the Wooster Arts Space in New York presented an exhibition featuring six up-and-coming artists who examined the impact of technology on nature. The showcased painters included Eric Ayotte, Jon Elliot, and Gwenessa Lam, alongside photographers Jaishri Abichandani, Lisa di Donato, and Tod Seelie. Their artworks reflected various psychological experiences and states, with digital manipulation playing a significant role. Di Donato's series, Neither Here Nor There, showcases altered desolate landscapes, while her C-print Light Sources highlights voyeuristic views of lit apartments. Seelie's photography captures fleeting moments of light, illustrating humanity's ties to the environment. Abichandani's work conveys a sense of mysticism, Lam's oil paintings depict constricted interiors, Elliot merges cityscapes with tech imagery, and Ayotte illustrates transformed race cars and motorcycles using enamels.

Key facts

  • Exhibition ran August 31-October 1, 2005
  • Featured six emerging artists: three painters and three photographers
  • Held at Wooster Arts Space, 147 Wooster Street, New York, NY 10012
  • Artworks explore technology's impact on human psyche and natural world transformation
  • Digital manipulation and computer processes play important roles
  • Lisa di Donato's Neither Here Nor There series shows Photoshop-flattened barren landscapes
  • Christopher Knight described the landscapes as "a 'no place' that defines and is defined by the nature of passage"
  • Works function as pictorial rather than linguistic signs describing psychological states

Entities

Artists

  • Eric Ayotte
  • Jon Elliot
  • Gwenessa Lam
  • Jaishri Abichandani
  • Lisa di Donato
  • Tod Seelie
  • Christopher Knight
  • Stan Brakhage
  • LeRoy Neiman

Institutions

  • Wooster Arts Space
  • artcritical

Locations

  • New York
  • United States
  • 147 Wooster Street
  • 63rd St
  • Hudson River

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