Under a blazing orange, red, and pink sunset in the Arizona sky, Western Spirit: Scottsdale’s Museum of the West held a VIP reception featuring the unveiling of the latest PIXoils™ digital canvas - a triptych. The work, entitled Spirit Catcher, is a collaboration between contemporary Western artist R. Tom Gilleon, and PIXoils creator-founder Marshall Monroe.
Special guests were invited to a unique installation exhibit entitled, Inner Light: An R. Tom Gilleon Retrospective, with over 70 original works from Gilleon’s multi-decade fine art career.
To kick off the event, the new PIXoils™ Digital Canvas work was unveiled via a dramatic kabuki-style curtain drop, complete with the audience providing a countdown. The museum’s esteemed leadership was on hand to mark the unveiling.
Marshall Monroe discusses the new work with collectors and VIP guests at the event.
Spirit Catcher is an expansion of the PIXoils™ Digital Canvas and immersive PIX.Salon platform technologies, allowing for multiple surfaces and more experiential systems for discerning collectors at the corporate, private, and public institution levels.
“Our philosophy for technology in fine art takes its cue from one of the greatest Western songs of all time by Cole Porter, … ‘Don’t Fence Me In,’” said Monroe in his remarks to the crowd before the unveiling. “That’s how we’re approaching this new world. And we just getting started with what is possible as we drive the evolution of storytelling and original media artistic expression.”
These works are not simple reproductions of historic artworks, rather they consist of all original imagery, brushwork, compositing, visual effects, animated sequences, and computer graphics imagery - all set to an original symphony score and sound effects spatial audio experience. The result is something utterly new - an artistic dreamlike experience that brings audiences closer to the campfire and night sky communal encounters of the world “out west.”
The exhibition, which will be at the museum for the next six months, also features a single-panel PIXoils™ collaborative work from Gilleon and Monroe entitled Fort Mountain. The Fort Mountain piece features an expansive landscape horizon from Montana and presents four seasons of times passage in that setting. The sequence includes thunderstorms, a full-moon nocturne, and even a white-out blizzard.
For information on the new platform advancements and commission projects on the drawing board, contact:
Hannah Monroe: Artist Development & Communications
hannah@mixonium.com