An Ellipses, A Vector, an Arc (The Dramatic Universe) Or The Well-Known Stranger
Paris London Hong Kong and Pickleman, Chicago, IL
June 24 – September 3, 2022

A solo show marking the return visit to Chicago by Academy Records, this presentation of a new suite of works on paper is entitled An Ellipses, A Vector, an Arc (The Dramatic Universe) Or The Well-Known Stranger.

The twenty works on view are oddly shaped and peculiarly put together. Eschewing the rectilinear, the works present an expanded use of collage, wherein paint, sandpaper and press-type simultaneously decorate and distress a series of found images whose references point historically backward while forecasting the future like some disheveled weatherman.

Each individual composition displays a constellation of images that generate a multiplicity of readings, from hippie dreams of the past to fashion crisis of the present: think the early collage experiments of Kurt Schwitters meeting the punk amalgamations of Linder Sterling.

Or better put: a Sex Pistol walks into a bar and orders a dada performance to go, only to be torn and thrown to the wind thus finishing the composition.