Stunning, Lifelike Graphics

Dream Car Celebration at Tyrell Corporation, 2009

High above the nostalgia of Michael Dotson's paintings (I know, right?), floats a playful question of context — where do our assumptions lead us when the familiar is rigorously derezzed to abstraction? Early videogames used their technical limitations to imply a new language through metaphor. A scab of pixels could be anything: a plumber, a pyramid, a tree.  

But now we're fluent in building worlds, so how do we reconcile a fusty, low-res past? 

Doreen Bolger in her review of Dotson's solo show, Curves:

"We are now confused about what is virtual and what is real, what is solid and what is air or light or shadow."

Turtle Lair, 2010Unidentified Floating Object, 2010