Acrylic and silkscreen ink on wood in steel frame.
56 1/2 x 48 1/2 x 2 3/4 inches.
Bedtime Stories (2010)
This exhibition of works on wood was something of a return to fundamentals, clearly emphasizing form and process, and ran From November 4 to December 23, 2010 at the Perry Rubenstein gallery in New York. Each of the twelve works’ compositions were created from individually painted wooden blocks that came together in "puzzle-box" format as unified paintings. According to the text accompanying the show, the paintings on wood "reveal FAILE’s relentless assimilation and refinement of the vast visual vocabularies of both the urban environment and their own decade-long practice. The grids of these paintings are at once modular and fixed, tactile and graphic. On their surfaces, iconoclastic characters fluidly intermingle with adroit deconstructions of commodity culture. The re-combinations of carefully constructed texts and images provide a glimpse into FAILE’s rigorous and organic process, and draw attention to painting’s inherent materiality."
