The
Digital Fine Art Society of New Mexico was founded in May 2002
to share ideas and knowledge, to educate, to mount group
exhibitions, and to promote the advancement of Digital Fine
Art and digital fine artists in the state of New Mexico.
The majority of members are experienced fine artists trained in traditional techniques of painting, drawing, photography, and printmaking. Other members are artists who want to become more familiar with digital art. We are united by our passion for using computer tools to create works of fine art and by our love for the evolving, creative medium of digital art.
The use of computer tools and new archival
printing techniques by Fine Artists is opening up a new world
of creativity.
Obviously,
the common use of the pencil or brush does not make a work of
art. Just so, the common use of the computer is nothing in itself
without the training and the soul of the artist behind it, using
this new tool for creative expression.
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"The
proper artistic response to digital technology is to embrace
it as a new window on everything that's eternally human, and
to use it with passion, wisdom, fearlessness and joy."
-
Ralph Lombreglia
"The computer is the most powerful creative tool an artist can possess, and it is well on its way to revolutionizing the making of visual art just as word processors have transformed the way most of us write. Unique among all the various ways of creating art with pixels, digital drawing [painting] expands the definition of computer art to include work of the size, look, and level of detail of traditional media."
- Martha Bradford
