Meet Space Art Pioneer Frank Pietronigro
Listen Now to Frank Pietronigro
Frank is the first American artist to create “drift paintings” where his body floated within a three-dimensional painting that he created in zero gravity aboard NASA’s KC135 aircraft. On April 4, 1998, Pietronigro flew from the NASA Johnson Space Center, aboard a KC135 turbojet, to create ‘drift paintings’ as the artist’s body floated within the 3-D kinetic painting space facilitated by parabolic flight and microgravity. He appropriated modernist painting conventions using similar techniques employed in abstract impressionism but with the intention of having very different outcomes within a postmodern situation. Frank painted by squeezing rainbow colored acrylic paints from pastry bags into the space surrounding his body.
We discuss the whole field of Space Art with Frank and look at what interesting space art projects are coming up!
Some links related to this interview at the suggestion of Frank:
Zero Gravity Arts Consortium
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