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"Today we get a second teaser from El Mac's upcoming solo exhibition- "The Humble And Sublime". Working in acrylic on panel, spray paint on canvas, and mixed media on paper, Mac’s gallery-size works echo many of the themes, styles, and techniques seen in his large-scale mural projects. Foremost is the dynamic relationship of figure to ground. Inspired by cultures around the globe, from Mexico to Thailand, Mac generates an endless vocabulary of graphic patterns that serve as an active, signifying backdrop to lovingly detailed and humane portraits.

Children, women, and respected elderly figures (often depicted in monochrome) are all featured amid colorful fields of repeating marks doodles, graffiti, even proto language characters which are transformed into vibrant overall pattern. Against this sea of marks, the carefully rendered and shaded figures take on added poignancy as all-too-human subjects caught in their “cultural context.” In the works omprising The Humble and Sublime, this mark-making mania infiltrates the figure itself, creeping across expanses of skin to infuse these subjects with an electric hum. They exist in multiple states as portrait subjects with individual identities and as picture surfaces recording the pervasive creep of culture’s stamp".


The Humble And Sublime will kick off on October 14th, 2010 at Joshua Liner Gallery in New York City.

Joshua Liner Gallery
548 West 28th Street
3rd Floor
New York, NY 10001















Posted by The Sneaker Hotel Monday, October 11, 2010

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