Pattern Recognition
@ The Plan
610 N Albany Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Friday, September 20th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, October 27th
“Pattern Recognition” presents the works of Esau McGhee and Andrew Falkowski, two artists who use collage to reconstruct their relationship to the world. In physically breaking down the detritus of mass produced culture that surrounds them, reanimating these sources into new, bold and graphic abstractions and text work.
Suffused with musical sensibility, both artists share a focus on collaging elements from marketing detritus, pop culture and advertisements. Esau McGhee edits found advertisements and discarded art objects, blending them with painted interventions to create dynamic, pattern abstractions. His editorial and hand made gestures loop, rhyme and repeat. They incorporate a variety of cultural points of reference, producing abstractions that are greater than the sum of their samples. Falkowski’s series of collages explore themes of repetition and uniqueness, revolving around a repeated statement, “This is the One.” Something akin to a physical mantra, the phrase is compiled and composed from magazines, junk mail, and commercial packaging. Falkowski’s work also includes woven digital collages and printed shoes. Like Mcghee’s work, which expands beyond the regimentation of rectilinear pictures, the shoes play with where and how art is shown and used in our daily lives. This is not exactly about elevating the ‘low’. Rather, it highlights the ways in which these artists convey personal subjectivity in the expansive field of a holistic, aesthetic existence. In “Pattern Recognition,” McGhee and Falkowski edit the messages, images, directives and solicitations of their external world. This becomes a point of entry into the personal poetics of reconstruction. In so doing, the cuts and edits of their practice create the rhythms and rhymes of their subjectivities.
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