Michael Skura: Tendrils
3425 Mission Inn Ave., Riverside, CA, 92501
Thursday, November 21 at 6:00 PM 9:00 PM
Ends Jan 5, 2020
Michael Skura is pleased to announce his newest selections of work on display at the Riverside Art Museum. Work includes hand blown glass, metal casting, cast glass, neon plasma, sound, and interactive projection mapping technologies. Skura’s newest solo work explores materials and technologies with minds of their own and celebrates conventional defects as opportunities for the expression of the essence of the materials. Working primarily with blown glass and video projection, Skura is most interested in “coaching” glass to assert itself through distortions, bubbles, debris, stress marks, and chemical reactions. Lighting phenomena and interactive technology are integral to Skura's work. In many cases, the light itself becomes the central artwork in its own right. His installations combine moments of “simple magic,” such as headlights reflecting off bent chrome car bumpers, with more sophisticated effects generated using motion sensors, 3D video mapping, and directionally reflective surfaces. Filling more than 2,000 square feet at the Riverside Art Museum in Riverside, California with original work, Skura has partnered with Epson®, Lumo Play and RabCup Corp to create a unique and other worldly experience.