Bryan Lewis Saunders-DRUGS

Bryan Lewis Saunders is a performance artist, videographer, and performance poet known for his disturbing spoken word rants, tragic art performances and Stand up tragedy. On March 30, 1995, Saunders began drawing at least one self-portrait every day for the rest of his life.For 11 days in 2001, Saunders conducted an experiment in which he ingested or inhaled a different intoxicant everyday and created a self-portrait under the influence documenting the effects of his altered perception. Each self portrait is drawn under the influence of different drugs taken daily. Within weeks of this experiment he became lethargic and suffered mild brain damage. He continues to work on this series but with much more time between doses.

90 mg Abilify

Absinthe

10 mg Adderall

10 mg Ambien

Bath Salts

Butane Honey Oil

Cocaine

Computer Duster

Cough Syrup

Crystal Meth

4 mg Dilaudid

DMT (during & after)

Hash

7.5 mg Hydrocodone, 7.5 mg Oxycodone, 3 mg Xanax

3 mg Klonopin

Psilocybin Mushrooms

PCP

Ritalin

Salvia

Seroquel

Trazadone

Valium

Xanax

Lisa Kellner

Silk installations done by the wonderful Lisa Kellner. 

Carlos Cruz-Diez

Carlos Cruz-Diez is a Venezuelan kinetic and op artist. He lives in Paris. He has spent his professional career working and teaching between both Paris and Caracas. His work is represented in museums and public art sites internationally

The Chromosaturation is an artificial environment composed of three color chambers, one red, one green and one blue that immerse the visitor in a completely monochrome situation. This experience creates disturbances in the retina, accustomed to receive wide range of colors simultaneously. The Chromosaturation can act as a trigger, activating in the viewer the notion of color as a material or physical situation, going into space without the aid of any form or even without any support, regardless of cultural beliefs.

Chromosaturation at the “Aventuras de la Óptica. Soto y Cruz-Diez” exhibition

Palace of the Counts of Gabia, Granada, Spain, 1989

Chromosaturation at the “Carlos Cruz-Diez” exhibition

Museo de Arte Moderno Jesús Soto, Ciudad Bolívar, Venezuela, 1998

Chromosaturation at the “Inverted Utopias. Avant-Garde Art in Latin America” exhibition

Museum of Fine Arts Houston, United States, 2004

Chromosaturation at the “Environment Chromatic-Interferences. Interactive Space by Carlos Cruz-Diez”

Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangdong, China, 2010