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David
Scott Leibowitz brings over twenty five years of fascination with photography,
video art, and experimental filmaking to his current position as a pioneer
in the developing medium of Digital Art. Mr. Leibowitz is part of a
new generation of artists who are redefining the boundaries of both
fine arts and popular culture. Having come of age during the information
revolution, his work merges an appreciation for the plastic arts with
an affinity for advanced computer technology.
Mr. Leibowitz completed his formal education in 1976 with a bachelor
of Fine Arts in Cinema from the University of Bridgeport. Studies included
film, video, photography, and art, with experimental filmaker Warren
Bass, and Video artist Shalom Gorewitz. During the late seventies, he
completed his formative period working for Director/Cinematographer
Tibor Hirsch.
His early interests involved some kind of alteration of the traditional
photographic image, which lead to his manipulation of Polaroid SX-70
film in 1977. He exhibited this medium, which he calls "Photo-Impressionism",
in an annual Soho exhibit for sixteen years. His work has been exhibited
in a number of museum shows in New Jersey, and has been included in
the corporate collections of IBM, Philip Morris, Polaroid, and Microsoft.
Leibowitzs' experience with video art during and after university, brought
him hands-on knowledge of video systems, and special effects. He established
a company to provide playback, and assorted video analysis to film production
companies, and advertising agencies on the sets of TV commercials. He
was the first on the East coast to use Media 100 non-linear editing
equipment for Video assist. This brought accurate slo-motion, post effects,
and instant editorial to the set, a valuable production tool we all
now take for granted.
While maintaining his company, Leibowitz has pursued his personal interest
in creating a new visual language through the use of photography, videography,
3D renderings and collage assembled on the Macintosh platform.
In 1991, he was approached by Jim Ross and Randy Pardy of Detroit Digital
Studios to bring his unique skill and vision to a Shima Seiki Image
Graphics Workstation. The resulting work has produced images of extraordinary
beauty and delicacy. In the past few years, this work has been published
in a feature article in Confetti magazine, in Polaroid's Test magazine,
twice in Computer Artist magazine, in the Jeremy Gardiner book,
Digital Photo-Illustration, on the Quantum Access CD-Rom, The
Virtual Gallery, and in the book Fractal Design: Painter 3 Complete.
In 1995 he turned his attention to the moving image, hand painting video a frame at a time in the computer, and for the past few years has added and incorporated 3D rendering into his art. He designed the searchable web site, Leibo.net as a living, ever changing portal into his world. It extensively documents this artist's evolution of imagery into the digital age, and is updated constantly with new work. With a multitude of images created in various mediums, the latest tools and techniques and a refined artistic sensibility, Mr. Leibowitz, camera still in hand, continues his pursuit of new methods to match new visions.
Work can be
viewed also at www.wmgallery.com.
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