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<\/a><\/p>\nfrom Pat’s . . Mission \/ Exhibition Statement:<\/strong><\/p>\n“Like all printed matter, zines have a physical life span. Even when shelved by the most caring reader, they naturally decay and die. This fragility gives them their voodoo<\/strong>, their authority<\/strong> to communicate in very intimate and immediate terms, full of emotion.<\/p>\nThe entirety of the works featured in ‘Slabs’ are literary constructs<\/strong>. Hand built dub<\/strong> versions of mass-distributed photocopied ephemera – of excerpted pages from the zines Born To Kill<\/em>, and Skirts<\/em>, flyers, tattoo flashes, pin-ups – recontextualized as heirloom objects in slab<\/strong> form. That is, presented not<\/strong> on paper but on ‘hard rectangular surfaces’ of varied and opposing materials and mediums. The pieces in ‘Slabs’ are realized using universal technologies and very elemental materials – porcelain, cotton, steel, film photography, flesh. These works are created primarily on either white ceramic porcelain or black denim, maintaining the monochromatic visual aesthetics of the zine pages from which they are dubbed<\/strong>.<\/p>\nApproximately 20 pieces will be presented … ranging from 8.5 in x 11 in to 17 in x 23 in. They are hung across 2 walls, in a classic clusterfuck salon style. But this is not<\/strong> a crowded ‘survey’ of recent work. This is a temporal<\/strong> sculpture of a single book, Written on the wall on the occasion of this exhibit.<\/p>\nThe Porcelain Slabs<\/strong> are created by transferring a photocopy, using iron-rich toner, directly onto wet<\/strong> porcelain slabs. When kiln-fired, the black carbon burns away and the sepia-colored iron burns<\/strong> into the ceramic body, embedded permanently. Porcelain is an ancient<\/strong> technology, a material that retains its composites for thousands of years. Selecting zine pages to elevate as Hall-of-Famers, to canonize on stone, takes much consideration, as these slabs will outlive me 10-fold.<\/strong> Yet all it takes for this eternal marriage is the photocopier and the application of fire.<\/strong><\/p>\nBlack denim and bleach<\/strong> are two materials that I keep in abundance on the roof for tending the pigeons<\/strong> and the coops<\/strong>. The ‘paintings’ I create with them are a sort of photographic<\/strong> negative <\/strong> of both the paper and ceramic zines. It is the opposite<\/strong> craft of ritualized ‘edit and revision’. Here the first<\/strong> draft is eternal. Every gesture, every move, mark, and mistake, is exposed. Like a tattoo onto skin, all is a one-liner. And like flesh<\/strong>, these paintings will deteriorate. Wood and denim will warp and ultimately rot. Similarly, painting with bleach begets<\/strong> a personal consideration of mortality<\/strong>, the fumes stinging my lungs each time the brush is dipped.<\/p>\nIn my zines there’s constant emphasis on place<\/strong> – place in very direct terms – an acknowledgement of what is under one’s feet<\/strong> at all moments; either it’s the street (Cheesebike<\/em>), or the sky (Pigeoning), or the sea, or in bed (Skirts<\/em>). When you’re hyper-focused on that, on your feet and on the slabs<\/strong> beneath your feet, everywhere becomes an experiment, a sculptural stage, or a poem.”<\/p>\n~Pat McCarthy, March 22, 2015, Brooklyn.<\/p>\n
Pat McCarthy aka the Bushwick Pigeoneer, and break-out ceramic star of . .
\n‘Satan Ceramics’ – Salon 94 at Freemans Alley, NYC. Sept 7 – Oct 25, 2014<\/a><\/p>\nof course !! I made the Agnes B opening !!
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file under: Replicate Exactly vs dub – !! and what about: pin-up vs pop-up ??!! LAST WEEK TO CATCH . . !! PAT McCARTHY – ‘SLABS’ March 26 – May 3, 2015 Agnes B. Galerie – 50 Howard St, Soho, NYC note: the show has been extended thru . . MAY 7th there will be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25032"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25032"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25034,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25032\/revisions\/25034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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