Opening this Thursday at Underground Gallery in London, UK…

DISRUPTIONS & CREATIONS

Featuring work by:
Ben Giles,
Jackson Klie
& Michelle O’Byrne

Disruptions & Creations is an exhibition of appropriated imagery and collage that explores the frailty of visual representation. Using simple cuts, rips and paint smears the three artists transform the surface of the image whilst simultaneously leaving evidence of its original form. This building tension is further emphasized by inherently nostalgic qualities of the source material itself. Drawing on dated advertisements, illustrated books and magazine articles the artists purposefully select iconic imagery that resonate firmly with the audience, yet appear obscured, fractured and recontextualized. The new contexts begin to form an array of diverse meanings and associations within the images, highlighting the fluid nature of visual media. 
 
July 12-17, 2012
Opening Reception Thursday July 12th, 6-9pm
Gallery Hours: Mon - Sat 11am - 5:30pm 

Curated by
Andrea Leigh Pelletier
of
Laid Bare: Curations and Other Concerns

Underground Gallery
Exit 9 | Charing Cross Underground Station
The Strand | London, UK
0207 379 8828 

Ben Giles is the kind of artist you wish you could invite over for wine (and maybe a collage or two.) This guy just keeps producing one visually stimulating piece after another! Follow him for a daily dose of beautiful, enigmatic collage.

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