LHP is pleased to announce a site-specific project by Samantha Bittman opening Friday, December 12th, 2014 from 6 to 8pm.

Number Cruncher identifies the handloom as a simple technology that is able to process repetitive numerical data into visually patterned information. The graphics and textures of the loom-generated, hand-woven textile supports, direct the painted surfaces often negating the materiality of the textile and highlighting the patterned surface. In other works, selectively painted areas visually merge with their underlying textile support. This transference of data into a visual language is thus a procedural gesture recalling early and basic computing.

Optically frenetic wallpaper—digitally printed low-res Photoshop files originating from the pixel interlacements in Bittman’s textiles—is installed behind the paintings, some of which correspondingly camouflage into the wall, seemingly absorbed into the environment. Other paintings are hung boldly in contrast to it.