Rotunda Gallery presents decipher: hand-painted digital, curated by guest curator Yasufumi Nakamori. decipher: hand-painted digital reveals an unexpected aspect of digital art, where artists decode and interpret digital technology, and then paint, sculpt and create works by hand, expressing human marks and often emotionally charged gestures. In decipher, artists use technology as an extension of the hand or as a conceptual tool, to create works with a sensibility that are at once, subversive, ecstatic and expressionistic.

Artists include:

• Randy Wray creates sculptures and paintings by combining an organic hands-on sculptural assemblage process and a sophisticated digital manipulation process. His highly mutative images, achieved by filtering one practice through another, feature "broken webs, colored tangles and craggy silhouettes" and create intuitive, fantastic and psychedelic art.
  
• In his drawings and videos, David Brody explores the concept of isometrics, a mathematical method of constructing a 3-dimensional object without using perspective. Brody explores "recursive and fractal-like structures that imply endless, computer-generated growth in his" large-scale pencil and ink drawings.
  
• In her paintings, Cadence Giersbach investigates disparate tourist sites, like Niagara Falls and a theme park in Madras, India. Both kitsch and romantic, these have often been the subjects of visual representation. Although her initial investigation is done by digitally manipulating photographs, she constructs her work entirely by hand, letting her psyche, memory and instinct further distance her images from their already surreal origins.
  
• James Esber makes surreal and candy colored Pop relief paintings directly on the wall, drawing references from both art history and popular culture. As a starting point, he digitally morphs and manipulates found images. Then, by hand, he crafts sculptural reliefs using countless numbers of play-dough fragments, each of which is assigned a color based on his Pointillism like color scheme.
  
• Marsha Cottrell generates multi-layered abstractions perhaps best compared to Futurist paintings on speed. Digitally altering and abstracting marks like commas, colons, slashes and parentheses she turns text into hair thin lines and calligraphic gestures.
  
• Claire Corey creates aggressively gestural markings and colorful, dreamy, utopian paintings. She subtly intertwines arcs and loops with hard-edged geometry and further distorts, layers, and retracts them. Using both digital technology and the hand, her work combines Abstract Expressionist-style painting with Photoshop's unique ability to filter, wave, clone and 'spherize.'
  
• Fascinated by "the culture of copy and the replica within a rubric of hand-made," Carl Fudge makes kaleidoscope-like prints and paintings by obsessively scanning and tweaking his representational sources. He draws his inspiration from a wide variety of art historical influences, both Western and Eastern, ranging from Dürer, Warhol and Hokusai, to popular culture such as Japanese anime.
  
• Bruce Pearson's abstract and "swirling coral reef" like paintings are made of intensely hand-carved and psychedelically-colored Styrofoam. Words (often taken from poems and encyclopedias) and photographic images are interwoven and layered to build a labyrinthine optical wonder.
  
• Millree Hughes digitally paints and creates videos of a series of multi-layered yet translucent romantic moving landscape images. Playing off the real limits inherent in the limitless possibilities of data manipulation, his paintings and lenticular prints create brilliantly shifting forms as the viewer passes by.
  
• Franklin Evans' Regeneration Project draws on theories of recreation and reproduction as it relates to art and human evolution. In his work, families of drawings, paintings, and digital video animations share a set of common characteristics. As they pass from generation to generation, from one image to its multiple reproductions, his images evolve, further and further into abstraction.