Electric Op exhibition repositions Op art within digital culture at Buffalo AKG Art Museum

The Buffalo AKG Art Museum presents "Electric Op," an exhibition that reinterprets the history of Op art within the context of modern digital culture, showcasing over 90 pieces spanning six decades. This display explores how perception is influenced by biological, material, technological, and intellectual frameworks, merging human observation with machine perception. Among the featured artists are Yaacov Agam, Martha Boto, Georg Nees, Carlos Cruz-Diez, Josef Albers, Al Held, Casey Reas, Rosa Menkman, Laura Splan, Rafaël Rozendaal, and Jason Salavon. Highlights include Agam's Free Standing Painting (1971), Boto's Interférences Optiques (1965), Albers's Structural Constellation F.M.E. #3 (1962), and Reas's METASOTO (2022). The exhibition is open until 27 January and highlights a unique cybernetic phenomenology, rooted in the Albright-Knox Art Gallery's 1965 exhibition.