Let the Drummer Get Some
27 July-25 August 2017
“Let the Drummer Get Some” is Paul Freeman Inc.’s staff show featuring the work of 15 artists, including collagist Paul Loughney.
New York artist Paul Loughney says: My work deconstructs how notions of identity are built up around manufactured ideas of beauty, fantasy, ritual and desire.
Working in collage, my primary material is contemporary fashion magazines and I tend to approach them as an anthropological document. Any “excavation” starts by cutting, removing and categorizing of imagery; beginning my exploration of how identity is promoted in material culture by exploiting the very material that supports that particular narrative.
My collages integrate masculine and feminine bodies culled from advertising that are alluring and also idealized props. They are further abstracted, reconfigured made intentionally ambiguous–heightening a tension between familiar and unrecognizable forms, creating a sense of mystery. I’m breaking apart manufactured ideas that exist as prepackaged guises and superficial masks.
His recent work displays a fastidious reassembling of smaller, various elements into pulsating, complex amalgamations; floating on black grounds of darkness, they reference a kind of patchwork identity as well as re-branding of self, emerging out of a void.
Closing Reception: Thursday, 17 August, 6-8PM
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Image:
Confetti of the Mind
by Paul Loughney
collage on paper
2017