As DeWitt Cheng writes, they operate as “a kind of sociopolitical camouflage,” where painterly surfaces “reflect subject matter of disquieting contemporary import.”
Jonathan T. D. Neil suggests that the works “extract color and shade to the exclusion of all other axes of differentiation,” enacting a visual process that parallels the extraction taking place on the land itself.
Thanks to Muse Frame for display support.
Consecutive Matters
UC Berkeley Center for Interdisciplinary Critical Inquiry
Minnesota Street Project
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13 Color photographs on Dibond panel
36x36/48x48/60x60 inches
Original works
Single Channel 2k video (1920x1920)
4 screen synchronized playback
Runtime 09:41
Score: Aaron Lepley
Music: Bob Villain
Displays: museframe.io
Stills assistance: Liz Miller Kovacs
Curator: Bryan Yedinak
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