Andrew Pepper

Light Wedge, 2018 – present
Two glass holographic plates (drawings), physical wooden wedge.

We intrinsically ‘understand’ how drawings in our world function.  They are stable and attached to their picture plane.  What happens when that drawing is moved off the surface, and what does it become? It is neither a drawing, a photograph, or physical object.

In Light Wedge, a ‘drawn’ representation of a wooden wedge occupies a ‘place’ between the glass ‘picture’ surface and the observer. The light in the holograms is from 2018, when the drawings were recorded. Light from the physical wedge is from 2022 (or whenever the installation is viewed).

Light Wedge was selected from over 300 entries for inclusion in the 2022 New Art Exchange Open exhibition.

Gallery installation

Wedge detail

The exhibition opens on 10th June 2022 and continues until 3rd September
Gallery open Tuesday – Saturday 10am - 4pm

www.nae.org.uk/exhibition/nae-open-2022/191

Light Wedge 2018 was produced at the Light Foundry, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA in collaboration with artist August Muth.

Andrew Pepper has been included in the New Art Exchange 2022 Open exhibition.

The juried selection, from over 300 submitted works, reflects the diversity of practices and approaches from Nottinghamshire based artists and Global Majority artists living in the UK.

Andy will be showing, for the first time in the UK, Light Wedge, an installation incorporating holographic drawings.

More details about the work here.

More details about the New Art Exchange Open installation here.

The exhibition opens on 10th June 2022 and continues until 3rd September
Gallery open Tuesday – Saturday 10am - 4pm

www.nae.org.uk/exhibition/nae-open-2022/191

Artists selected for the NEA Open 2022 are:

• Mohamad Aaqib Anvarmia

• Jessica Ashman

• Tristram Aver

• Sayra Begum

• Adonia Bouchehri

• Roisin Bourke

• Jarvis Brookfield

• Shaista Chishty

• Clare Chun-yu Liu

• Rosie Deegan

• Neequaye Dreph Dsane

• Grace Eden

• Tim Fowler

• Enam Gbewonyo

• Gisou Golshani

• Suman Gujral

• Hannaa Hamdache

• Arthur Hsu

• Henrique J. Paris

• Seungjo Jeong

• Sabine Kaner

• Sumuyya Khader

• Day Eve Komet

• Sahjan Kooner

• Olana Light

• Rudy Loewe

• Jas Lucas

• Jeneé Marie

• Fungai Marima

• Delores Oblitey

• Andrew Pepper

• Daniel Rapley

• Benjamin Rostance

• Shannon Scherer

• Janhavi Sharma

• Chiemi Shimada

• Saintly Amok

• Jamal Sterrett

• Hope Strickland

• Arushee Suri

• Kim Thompson

• Vernon Tong

• Zheni Warner

• Honey Williams

• Kenizzi Yamalimbu

Andrew Pepper will be speaking at Nottingham Contemporary as part of the Liveness: Creative Work and Presence in Physical and Digital Spaces event, Andrew Pepper will be discussing the significance of liveness in the process of making and staging artworks within exhibitions, with artist and educator Professor Angela Bartram.

Thursday 27th April 2022

The event includes panel discussions by artists, educators, curators and musicians exploring Liveness.

Participants include: Niki Harman, Jack Benjamin, Louise O’Connor, Wingshan Smith, Lila Matsumoto and Matthew Hamblin, Tim Hutchings, Angela Bartram, Andrew Pepper and Paul Hegarty.

To coincide with Deana Lawson's solo exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum, New York, a text, which looks at how artists work with holography, has been published on the Guggenheim Website.

More details here.

Commissioned by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, this text provides an overview of how artists have embraced holography within their practice.  It was published to coincide with Deana Lawson's solo exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum, New York,  in which she included holograms alongside her photographic work.  The exhibition ran from May - October 2021.

Holography: How Artists Sculpt with Light, Space, and Time