Pat Lehman

Colored pixels slowly build up into abstract patterns. Scored by Steve Reich’s “Music for 18 Musicians.” As described by the Los Angeles Times: “the artist pains kinetic abstractions with electrons. The piece begins with a few colored squares, scattered about a plain field, and grows to larger scale arrangements of overlapping rectangles. Sequences of flickering movement and changing color are impeccably orchestrated as squares become building blocks in handsome compositions.”

Flashing colors. Scored by “A Rainbow in Curved Air.”

An abstract, computer-generated video in which patterns form within a grid structure by the addition of individual colored pixels.

Colored rectangles forming on top of each other, creating constantly-shifting abstract compositions. Scored by “A Rainbow in Curved Air.”

A woman is recorded into abstraction. One of Lehman's most frequently exhibited pieces.

A documentary in which subjects speak about their earliest sexual experiences.

Lehman's beautiful computer-generated images float in soundless neon voids. Work produced ca. late '70s.

An image processing video, in which images of dancers are manipulated and distorted with video effects.

A colorful image processing work incorporating figurative and abstract imagery. Video begins with the buildup of individual pixels, which soon gives way to animated abstract patterns and, sometimes built around a silhouetted head of a man. Scored to Steve Reich’s’ “Music for 18 Musicians.”

A documentary about the performers at a Denver drag bar, consisting largely of interviews conducted backstage as the performers apply their makeup.

Elaborate abstract patterns form, pixel by pixel. Scored to Klaus Schulze’s “P:T:O:”.

Originally made as a 60 second public service announcement for local TV stations in Denver, Colorado, Pat Lehman's Drug Abuse warns viewers about the effects of drug use in the form of a a psychedelic odyssey. Its multicolored animations, made with the Computer Image Corporation's Scanimate video synthesizer, explore the phenomenological effects of drugs in a series of kaleidoscopic renderings; the mind and body are shown glowing in technicolor before distending and melting in and out of the surfaces of the screen. While the piece is one of Lehman's earliest experiments with Scanimate, it is also, alongside Video Vitae, one of her most frequently exhibited pieces. The tape was screened as an "experimental special effects film" at numerous festivals including the 1972 Cannes Film Festival, before being exhibited at the Computer Art Festival in New York in 1975.

Colors in shifting patterns of squares, scored by Terry Riley’s “A Rainbow in Curved Air”

Abstract compositions of pulsating and shifting frames within frames, scored by “A Rainbow in Curved Air.”

Abstract patterns of colorful pixels gradually form, dot by dot. Scored to Klaus Schulze’s “Stardancer.”