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In Clausnitzer’s work, there is an important digression from a complete alignment with the technically driven side of world New Media art. This digression serves to set up an edgy relationship in his work between “slick production values and the old fashioned evidence of the artist’s hand.” New Media is being embraced as a total methodology, but it is frequently unable to look immediate and fresh, to appear spontaneous, and is nearly always unable to deliver breathy energy. By their very nature, New Media methods are not personal in these ways, as well as in others. They are in fact once or twice removed from original sources. Clausnitzer’s ability to create compelling pictures that utilize technological effects in ways that give us a hand-made feel is a driving factor in all of his works on display at Micro Museum.

It is in this New Media approach that Clausnitzer finds himself at his most inventive. Inspired by the many new mediums available to artists of all kinds these days, he at the same time sees new questions and problems arising for picture makers. He also sees that a few artists are beginning to address these issues. Such notions as “when should the evidence of an artist’s hand or his or her thinking processes in a work of New Media art be made apparent and thus incorporated as a part of the overall esthetic of a finished work?” The development of modern visual technologies has tended increasingly toward a perfection of product. Clausnitzer believes that we find part of our enjoyment of visual art in the evidences of the act of creation. These are, of course, brush strokes or pencil marks and the small glitches of surface that are left behind in a piece of art that says to us that this thing was made by hand. However...

Kathleen Laziza, Micro Museum, New York

Women tickling women - transformer

2007
Photo-montage, oil on paper
42cm x 55cm

Women tickling women - clowns

2007
Photo-montage, oil on paper
55cm x 42cm

Women tickling women - horse tail whip

2007
Photo-montage, oil on paper
55cm x 42cm

Women tickling women - bungalow

2007
Photo-montage, oil on paper
55cm x 42cm

Thousand Petaled Lotus

2007
acrylic on canvas
160 cm at the median line