Gene Tulchin & Paul Johnson – 3D Lenticular Portraits and Abstract Images

August Installation

Gene Tulchin is a practicing painter, photographer, and computer graphics artist who was an Associate Professor at The Cooper Union School of Art for over twenty-five years. Gene Tulchin’s work has been widely exhibited in the United States and in Europe, including at The Museum of Modern Art, and the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Queens Museum of Science, Witkin Gallery, and Siggraph, to name a few. It is at The Cooper Union that Paul Johnson first met Gene Tulchin as his professor of photography back in 1977. Paul Johnson graduated with a BFA from The Cooper Union and went on to be an Emmy award winning Director of Animation and Special Effects for twenty-five years. In 2005 Paul Johnson started working with the 3D artist Gerald Marks who was also one of his professors at The Cooper Union, doing Auto Stereoscopic 3D images. This led Paul Johnson to research the 3D lenticular process and develop techniques for shooting and printing his own 3D lenticular images. Paul Johnson then did 3D lenticular photography for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Top of the Rock at Rockefeller Center, Softmotion 3D, Adan Frank, Inc., Ball-Nogues Arcitects, and 1-800Postcards. He has exhibited his work at the Ricco Maresca Gallery, ArtExpo, The Armory Show, and the Kaufman Arcade. In 2010 Gerald Marks re-introduced Paul Johnson to Gene Tulchin so that they could collaborate together on printing large format 3D lenticular images. For the past two years Tulchin and Johnson have been working to develop techniques for shooting 3D lenticular portraits, which they are excited to show for the first time at this exhibit.

August 27 –Introduction to Lenticular Imaging and Artist talk with Paul Johnson @2pm – Reserve a seat and/or – Sign up here to have your portrait made

Tony V by Gene T. & Paul J., 3D Lenticular Digital Print, 16X 14”