I landed on the front page of The Australian Newspaper for stating, “Painting was dead and the new paradigm of Computer Art was about to take flight. That same year I flew to Australia and delivered the keynote address to the First Pan Pacific Computer Conference in Melbourne, to over 6,000 attendees.
We struck up a conversation about Computer Art and he told me he had received the commission of creating Debbie Harry’s album cover and wanted me to teach him how to use the Amiga Computer. In 1985 I met Andy Warhol at Study 54 in New York City. I told Nam June I was about to photograph the screen with a still camera on a tripod because I felt this was going to be a way to replace traditional painting.
One of the inventor’s video guru Nam June Paik was present, asking me what I was doing? I put my hands on the knobs and buttons and proceeded to tweak an image on the screen, altering the image. To my surprise it was a space filled with analog system machines: Paik-Abe Colorizers, Synthesizers, and Rutt-Etra Synthesizer. He suggested I go check out this Media Center nearby. I was sitting in the back of an Art History class watching Charlie Chaplin’s, “Modern Times.” I was approached by a fellow student that saw me with a very long lens attempting to photograph the screen. Innovation came to fruition when I took a semester off from School of Visual Arts and went to Buffalo State College to save my relationship with my High School girlfriend. I was the Artist of the Newport Jazz Festival, as well as the Featured Guest of the 113th New York International Auto Show and then the Oslo Motor Show in Norway. It remains the most emblematic work of Art in their history. The passion behind creating the one of a kind, large-scale statue was translated into the Official Art of the 57th Annual Grammy Awards in 2015. I went to the High School of Music & Art in Harlem where the fusion of two creative disciplines stayed with me, my entire life.
My dexterity was awkward in the beginning, and my mother enrolled me at the Pels School of Art in the Ansonia Hotel, NYC. I can say I was an Artist from inception. I am often asked, “When did you know you were an Artist?” The answer is, “I was floating in my mother’s womb playing around with fluids.” At the age of two, I crawled out of my crib and outlined my sleeping mother in red lipstick. Laurence, we’d love to hear your story and how you got to where you are today both personally and as an artist. Today we’d like to introduce you to Laurence Gartel.
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