Leo Villareal Studio

Leo Villareal Studio is a Brooklyn, NY based fine art studio specializing the creation of highly-refined LED and video artwork. Leo Villareals work is focused on stripping systems down to their essence to better understand the underlying structures and rules that govern how they work. He is interested in lowest common denominators such as pixels or the zeros and ones in binary code. Using the simplest forms, Villareal begins to build elements within a framework. The work explores not only the physical but adds the dimension of time combining both spatial and temporal resolution. The resulting forms move, change, interact and ultimately grow into complex organisms that are inspired by mathematician John Conways work with cellular automata and the Game of Life. Villareal seeks to create his own sets of rules and central to his work is the element of chance. The artists goal is to create a rich environment in which emergent behavior can occur without a preconceived outcome. He is an...