Paradigm Gallery is showing a three-person show celebrating collage, color, and pattern featuring Miriam Singer, Jim Houser, and Andrew Jeffrey Wright.
I use a variety of media including traditional printmaking, collage, markers, and acrylic paint to create small and large works on paper and panels. Most of the works included in the current show PUSHING are a response to a walk or daily travel through neighborhoods that I spend time in. I generally draw in a sketchbook or sometimes on a single sheet of paper while out in the field. I draw architecture and objects by looking. Often, bringing the drawings into my studio where I add sketches to paper or panels. I draw or paint from sketches, memory, photographs, and from invention. These works are about physical materials, color, and line as well as a playful response to my daily experience in the built environment. –Miriam Singer
“I have been increasingly focused on the way in which I approach art-making and examining my practice. For me, art-making, music, and skateboarding all involve these similar repetitive routines which allow for some form of meditation to occur. Much of the work in this show is an examination of how intertwined these three things have become for me.” –Jim Houser
Andrew Jeffrey Wright is well known for his screenprints, paintings, animations, drawings, collages, videos, installations, and performances. His work includes optically charged screenprints of obsessively repeated abstract patterns and one or two color screenprints that incorporate hilarious social commentary drawn in an economic and knowingly naïve style. This collection for PUSHING features the artist’s “Super Rare” screen print series. A “super rare” screen print is a one-of-a-kind print created through a layering process that sometimes takes the artist years to create!
