Every finished piece that is run through the printer or sees time onscreen is the result of a long chain of development, much of it unplanned. And that process is important to me as an artist – sometimes more important than the finished work itself. In preparation for Process & Influence, my first solo exhibition (documented here), I tried to think of a good way to convey a bit of the creative and technical process that underlies a lot of [Read More...]

Process & Influence was my first solo exhibition, and ran from February 16th – March 25th, 2011 at the Eissey Campus Art Gallery at Palm Beach State College in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. Select Exhibition Views Concept This image is scanned from notes I took during my residency at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in 2008, and served as the catalyst for the conceptual development of this exhibition. My overall goal was to give a glimpse into my entire creative process, [Read More...]

I was recently interviewed by Gretel Sarmiento, a freelance writer based in South Florida, for an article on my solo show,Process & Influence. This is one of my favorite excerpts: “At 30, Selikoff already has accomplished a lot: a steady job that funds his artistic work, a marriage of four years, two cats (Michael and Olive), a hippie look (never easy to pull off) and now his very own exhibit.” You can read the whole article in the March 2011 [Read More...]

Image above: a Harmonogram of Ivan Moscovich, from 1968. Not a chaotic artwork, but definitely a generative one. On April 6th, I’ll be giving a lecture in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. The talk is called The Confluence of Chaos and Computation in Generative Visual Art and will be an expanded version of the talk I gave at the AMS meeting last November. I’ll be speaking twice, first at 12:30pm at the Lake Worth Campus, Room NS129 and later at 6:00pm at the Eissey Campus, [Read More...]

Part of what inspires me about this form is its resemblance to aerial photographs of river deltas and other geological phenomena. Perhaps it is a minimalistic interpretation of what an alluvial fan looks like from above.