Video

Vunderglas

1985
Assemblage with spinning mirror, neon and strobe
32 x 26 x 6 inches
Spinning mirror and light distort the viewer’s reflection
Collection of Anilisa Panebchek

In 1987, during my first solo exhibit at the now defunct Blue Collar Gallery in San Antonio, I was informed by the director that William Wegman dropped in and was surprised see his beloved, deceased weimaraner, Man Ray, when he looked into the Vunderglas. I miss my Vunderglas…

BRUDNIAK

[Brudniak’s] visual tricks can be fascinating. For example, one work looks like the magic mirror In Snow White. But by hitting a switch, which starts a smaller inset mirror revolving and then turning on a strobe light, you see your face suddenly frozen in a different position with each flash. Allowing viewers to push buttons and operate strange gizmos is an effective way of heightening awareness and involvement… He [Brudniak] says his work is concerned with “making conscious, those latent abstract aspects or concepts which are not necessarily subconscious, yet appear to be impervious to conscious perception.”

DAN GODDARD – San Antonio Express News