DAVIS, CA.- Davis Art Center hosts a solo exhibition of work by San Francisco-based Russian artist Ted Vasin through July 25, 2008. The exhibition consists of over a dozen colorful and geometrically precise paintings along with a site-specific sound installation.

Bridging the gap between fantastical dreams and quotidian life, Ted Vasin’s work communicates an unfamiliar perspective, an enveloping multi-dimensional world containing shapes that defy simple associations. His paintings are crisp and precise and make use of a wide variety of metallic pigments and robust colors. The artist mixes these with particles that refract light, shift hues, and become iridescent, each visual aspect carefully designed to frustrate the viewer’s ability to pin the image down and name it.

Vasin’s sound compositions have an intuitive symmetry and are complementary to the artist's shapes and colors. Ambient sounds are processed until they emerge as dream-like representations of themselves, while electronic instruments are almost hyper-real in their presence.

“Vasin’s paintings based on digital sketches are full of energy that comes from their colors and imaginative forms on an almost horizon-less canvas. The mathematical precision of the paintings intuitively relate to the accompanying sound episodes. The juxtaposition between the imagery and sound makes the work feel dream-like yet familiar.” – Laura Stewart Heon, Curator, SITE Santa Fe.
The concurrent exhibit of Ted Vasin’s paintings has recently opened at San Francisco’s Limn Art Gallery and Vasin also has shown at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, the De Young Art Center and Pacifica Center for the Arts.