Mar 7th 2020

Jeffrey Augustine Songco: Commercial Break

@ FLXST Contemporary

2251 S Michigan Ave. Suite 2251, Chicago, IL 60616

Opening Saturday, March 7th, from 5:30PM - 8PM

On view through Sunday, April 19th

You are invited to celebrate the opening reception of Filipino American artist Jeffrey Augustine Songco’s debut solo show “Commercial Break” at FLXST Contemporary on March 7, 2020, 5:30-8 pm.

For “Commercial Break,” the Grand Rapids, MI-based queer artist created fabrics using an archive of self-portraits to produce patterns and shapes that he collages together. The new textile works capture the wittiness of Songco’s practice of self-representation. In this case, the fabric is composed of self-portraits meticulously created into colorful patterns. These textiles become figurative representations of “flowers and plants,” for which the series is named. The “Flowers and Plants” series, a fabric collage and sculpture series convey a kitschy performance of himself as household objects that are to be bought and sold. “Commercial Break” also includes “Spike Marks and Mirrors,” a durational site-specific installation created from recycled components from Songco’s archive of work. In total, the show captures the use of self-representation through Songco’s creation of the textiles as a queer visual strategy that is subversive through its mimetic acts.

Refreshments will be served. Street parking is available. The gallery is on the second floor, Suite 220 (to be let in, please select the gallery’s name using the arrows and ring the gallery using the phone icon on the intercom). There are stairs and an elevator to reach the second floor.

WHAT: Opening Reception to “Commercial Break”

WHO: Jeffrey Augustine Songco

WHEN: Opening Reception March 7, 2020, 5:30-8 pm

DURATION: March 7 – April 19, 2020

GALLERY HOURS: Monday through Thursday from 10-3 pm and Sunday from 2-5 pm, or by appointment. Friday and Saturday by appointment only.

WHERE: FLXST Contemporary, 2251 S. Michigan Ave. Suite 220, Chicago, IL 60616.

MORE INFO: info@flxst.co

Jeffrey Augustine Songco: www.songco.org
FLXST Show Web Page: https://www.flxst.co/jeffrey-augustine-songco-commercial-break

Event image credit:
“Blue Flowers in a White Vase,” cotton and velvet on canvas, 20” x 16”, 2020

Courtesy of the artist and FLXST Contemporary.

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