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SATURDAY 09.05.26
Jeremy Rotsztain: My Eyes Glaze Over | Carnation Contemporary
September 5—27, 2026
Opening Saturday, September 5, 5–8 PM
Closing reception: Sunday, September 27, 2-5 PM
Gallery hours: Saturday & Sunday, 12–5 PM & by appointment
Coined by physicist/futurist Herman Kahn, “My eyes glaze over” describes an instinctive response to being overwhelmed about the future.
In his upcoming solo show at Carnation Contemporary, Jeremy Rotsztain continues his explorations of abstraction using new technologies, creating virtual compositions that represent various states of drifting attention, disengaged staring, and zoning out. The show almost exclusively contains lenticular images: digital scenes viewed with specialized lenses that create an illusion of space/dimensionality.
The works in “My Eyes Glaze Over” can be approached like analog screens; screens that invite a range of states from meditative to spaced out to overwhelmed. These works were composed with an all-over technique commonly found in Abstract Expressionist painting: filling a canvas edge-to-edge with gestural marks or with layers of color, treating all areas of the canvas evenly. Jeremy expands all-overness into three dimensions, crafting computer algorithms to fill the 3D volume of his screens and drawing others by hand. These gestural marks are both a vehicle for moving color through space and for guiding viewers’ drifting gazes through those spaces. Some of the images feature subtle interaction: as you move across the image, the colors shift in turn.
For Jeremy, “My Eyes”, represents a point of inflection about working with new technologies in this new era of AI. “My Eyes Glaze Over” is also an expansion of the acronym MEGO, an experimental Austrian record label co-founded by Peter Rehberg (1968-2021). Rehberg’s early use of the laptop for live music performance attracted Jeremy towards making art using technology. The series of works with the same title is dedicated to him.
Biography
Jeremy Rotsztain (b. Toronto, Canada) explores contemporary abstraction using code and computer graphics. His work manifests as augmented & virtual reality artworks, lenticular prints and 3D animations. His projects often engage with the physical environments that they’re presented in, playing with history, experience of space and color. His work is typically slow in nature, visceral and involves collaborations with electronic musicians. He lives and works in Portland, Oregon.
Jeremy’s work has been exhibited throughout the United States and internationally, including Zentrum für Kunst und Medien (ZKM), Geneva International Film Festival, MUTEK Festival, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, New York Hall of Science and Boston Cyberarts Festival. His work has been covered in Wired Magazine, The Atlantic, LA Weekly, Fast Company and Vice.
5 PM – 8 PM @ 8371 N Interstate Ave., Portland, OR