’Emergence’ Installation at Millard Sheets Art Center - Shifting Aesthetics Exhibition

’Emergence’ Art Installation at Millard Sheets Art Center - Shifting Aesthetics Group Exhibition Darel Carey is a visual artist based in Los Angeles. He uses lines to bend the perceived dimensions of a surface or space. He is interested in spatial perception, and has always been a fan of MC Escher’s mind-bending, geometrical illusions. He feels that the best imagination comes from the best understanding of reality, and merges a scientific philosophy of the natural world with his creative processes to shape his work. Using mediums ranging from paint to tape, he forms organic patterns with lines, allowing self-organizing simplicity to create complexity. The lines individually are just lines, but together in these organic patterns they become more than just lines; as a whole they form something more complex than what they are individually. Implied curvature and perceived depth emerge. Two-dimensional surfaces can appear to be three-dimensional, and vice versa. With his immersive in