November 19th - December 31st 2022
Gallery Hours: 24/7
miniMAC
25 West Mt Airy Avenue, Philadelphia PA 19119
www.mountairycontemporary.com
info@mountairycontemporary.com
miniMAC is pleased to announce Filter, an exhibition of works by Laurie Frick and Richard Garrison.
We receive a deluge of information moving through a modern world - the physical terrain of suburban strip mall landscapes that surround us and the digital landscape we navigate daily. In traversing this world, we swim in tagged advertising, personalization, and tracking, at once anonymous and deeply, intrusively intimate.
Frick and Garrison both employ the practice and language of contemporary data analytics to filter and interpret their experiences - sunburst, pie and mosaic graphs. They share a common interest in translating this information by hand, using traditional picture-making practices like watercolor and collage - the physical human hand and eye performing their role as the original data processing tools, filtering and reinterpreting as a way to reclaim ownership of their place in this world.
Laurie Frick (www.lauriefrick.com) uses data to examine what we can know about ourselves. In her hand-built installations, drawings and small works she experiments with how we will consume the mass of data increasingly captured about us. Frick says of the work included in this show, “Many, many small collages were made on stretched canvas from found postcards, paperback book covers and heavy paper scrounged from everywhere. These were an intense study of time and the way you remember time forward and backward. I’ve worked for years from time studies from all over the world, how exactly people spend their time in the prior 24 hours. These are memory of time, the amount you take in everyday - what sticks and what is gone. Trying to make sense of how the feeling of time changes depending on what is going on with you.”
Richard Garrison (www.richgarrison.com) distills visual information from repetitive interactions with big box stores, parking lots, and online shopping. Observed data is systematically transformed into chart-like paintings and drawings that restructure the palette and imagery of daily and routine activities. The intimate, patterned, and colorful interpretations of this banal content reflects his perception and participation with the confounding beauty of the American suburban landscape.
Laurie Frick was recently featured on NPR’s All Things Considered, Atlantic and Wired Magazine; she has been invited to talk at Google, SXSW, Stanford and TEDx. Frick is a recipient of numerous residencies and awards, including Samsung Research, Yaddo, Bemis and Facebook. She holds an MFA from the New York Studio School, an MBA from University of Southern California and studied at NYU’s ITP program that melded art and technology into her current data work. Frick’s artwork has been exhibited in museums, galleries and art spaces across North America, including Musee de la Civilization in Quebec City, Science Museum in Oklahoma City, Pavel Zoubok Gallery in New York and Edward Cella in Los Angeles. Recent installations include public art in downtown Austin, CapitalOne, Facebook and Texas A&M. Born in Los Angeles, she lives and works in Austin, Texas.
Richard Garrison received his BS in Studio Art from the College of Saint Rose, Albany, NY in 1993 and an MFA from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY in 1995. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including The Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC; the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art, Clinton, NY; Kidspace at MASS MoCA, N. Adams, MA; The Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ; the International Print Center, New York, NY; the Elmhurst Museum of Art. Elmhurst, IL, and the Queens Museum of Art, Queens NY.
