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James Mlaker uses his art
to convey explorations of the permeability of the boundaries
of reality through diverse themes. Technically rooted in
the union of digital photography and computer graphics,
these creatively complex images visually explode with intense
color and psychological impact. Last Remnants of Mardi
Gras is comprised of images of two different New Orleans
street scenes layered over a macro image of a doll combined
with digitally painted and graphically filtered generated
effects. The piece suggests feelings of a colorful, vibrant,
yet somehow shallow personality masking far deeper introspective
realms with a voyeuristic invitation to explore, exposed
through the slight cracks in the mask and the exposure of
the underlying, inviting features. Watched, a composition
created from images of the rotunda ceiling window in the
Native American Museum in New York City, a homeless person,
and the artist's own eye, conveys the strange relationship
of anonymity, homelessness, poverty and an ultra-paranoid
post-911 Orwellian society.
Mlaker earned his Bachelor of Arts degree
in Psychology from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee,
and his MS degree from Concordia University, Wisconsin.
Exhibition commitments for 2005 include the David Leonardis
Gallery, Chicago, the Infusion Gallery in Los Angeles, the
AX Space Gallery in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and the New
York Art Festival in Las Vegas, among others.
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