On My Visual Art
My work in the visual arts is grounded in my work as a composer over 45 years and as a poet over 70 years. I am also influenced by having been a digital artist since 1970, strongly so in music composition, less so in poetry. (See Music and Poetry).
I am an experimental artist working in digital painting, graphics, abstract photography, and animation. My work is abstract in the sense that I invent shapes, colors, and textures without reference to representational concerns. Working entirely digitally, I consider the boundaries between domains of visual art as entirely permeable, in the sense that conventional curatorial criteria do not apply to my work. Since I work with a large variety of tools aided by a mastery of controlled random, the outcome of my composition and design processes are unpredictable; their results often straddle the line between established visual-art categories.
For recent news about my visual art, go to:
https://www.newenglandexperimentalartgroup.com/blog/199064/interview-with-artist-otto-laske
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Introduction to the Gallery
The Gallery presents three kinds of artwork:
- Paintings (3 portfolios)
- Abstracts Drawings (black and white and colored)
- Three ‘Visual Music’ animations
The backbone of the animations is musical syntax, their coloring derives from multi-level orchestration. image and sound are treated as subordinate to poetic meaning. Image sequences outline musical form and interpret the poetic voice.
Due to the fluidity with which digital tools cross categorical boundaries, there is a constant interchange between all portfolios. As a result, the traditional distinctions between art forms do not apply.