Friday, December 24, 2010

Photo Tour: Faile at Perry Rubenstein Gallery

Faile is two people, Patrick McNeil and Patrick Miller. The pair are street artists (I wonder if you are allowed to keep calling yourself a street artist when your art is being exhibited in a chi-chi Chelsea gallery?) who mainly do paste up posters. In this show, the images are dense visual collages with images repeated at various sizes in various configurations. If there is a motif that repeats in this show, it's the sexy girl--particularly two sexy girls kissing. I was a little surprised to see this frat-boy's delight straight out of Girls Gone Wild. It seems retrograde. That said, I like the overall visual assault of the work, the colors, and the staging in the gallery.



Faile, Bedtime Stories, acrylic and silkscreen ink on wood in steel frame, 2010


 
Faile, Sub Rosa, acrylic and silkscreen ink on wood in steel frame, 2010 

 

Faile, No Change, acrylic and silkscreen ink on wood in steel frame, 2010  

 

Faile, Fashions Last Stand, acrylic and silkscreen ink on wood in steel frame, 2010  

 

Faile, Faile Tower, acrylic and silkscreen ink on wood in steel frame, 2010  

 

Faile, Faile Tower, acrylic and silkscreen ink on wood in steel frame, 2010 

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