The Abrons Arts Center is proud to present the site-specific exhibition, Transparency Now, in the Charles E. Culpeper Gallery. Hunter Cross employs materials common to mid-1990s office environments and elementary school classrooms, stacking prefab bingo chips on overhead projectors to produce images reminiscent of microscopic imagery and vector graphics.

These ‘overheads’ work with the available color palette and are built from a set of devised rules, routines and patterns. This imagery creates a mysterious environment stuck in time, recalling an abandoned office meeting or scientific visualization. By focusing on color and light and its interaction with the site’s glass cases, Hunter Cross scales his work using the compression capabilities of the projected image (e.g. small objects creating larger images) to encourage questions regarding an art object’s materiality and the ease with which its image can enter and exist, perhaps more effectively in a virtual realm. This work is part of Transparency Now, a series of installations demonstrating the potential of this set of rules, routines and patterns when forced to adapt to different site scales.

Visitors are encouraged to walk around the projectors and photograph themselves in the projections to be included in an online archive. Photos of any quality should be emailed to: [email protected]

Hunter Cross (born 1980) received his BA from Trinity University in 2003. He has exhibited at the Austin Museum of Art, Art Palace, Dallas Contemporary and Arthouse, and has recently been awarded a large-scale public art commission from the City of Austin. He lives and works in Austin, Texas.