[Philip Lelyveld comment: art created with holography, transparent prints, and lenses.]

[Straight.com]

Jerry Pethick was one of the West Coast’s most original, innovative, and beloved artists. Even before his death in 2003, he had developed something of a cult following among curators, critics, and his peers. He distinguished himself with his early experiments with holography and his later ventures into photoarrays,…

… The arrays involve the creation of an integral, three-dimensional image by mounting rows of serial photos behind corresponding rows of Fresnel lenses (plastic lenses with concentric grooves on their surfaces). Because of their low resolution and dreamily “defocused” quality, Pethick wrote in a 1999 artist’s statement, these images lend themselves to metaphors of memory and imagined space. They are a low-tech exploration of the high-concept realm of optics—of the physical laws that govern the way we visually perceive the world. …

Read the full story here: http://www.straight.com/article-539471/vancouver/sfu-gallery-celebrates-jerry-pethicks-ventures-photoarrays