Scintillating Scraps
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By Tom Wachunas
“Marvel
is a cornucopia of fantasy, a wild idea, a swashbuckling attitude, an escape
from the humdrum and the prosaic. It's a serendipitous feast for the mind, the
eye, the imagination, a literate celebration of unbridled creativity, coupled
with a touch of rebellion and an insolent desire to spit in the eye of the
dragon.” - Stan Lee
EXHIBIT: The
Pieces That Fit – collages by Perris Mackey (p _ ThaNerd) at Patina
Arts Centre, 324 Cleveland Ave NW, downtown Canton, OH / ending on APRIL 23
/ Gallery Hours: Thursday 12-8pm, Friday 8-10pm, Saturday 12-10pm
Perris
Mackey - a.k.a. p_ThaNerd – constructs spectacular collages that are dense, intricate
agglomerations of fragments salvaged from damaged comic books and recycled
magazines. Collectively, his pictures are a celebratory smorgasbord - a
confluence of facts and fantasies incorporating iconic celebrities and
characters – all seasoned with street-smart theatricality.
At some points in your looking at this
tantalizing mélange – and there are only a few days left to do so - you might even
envision the artist as a savvy master rapper. Or maybe a virtuosic jazz horn
player, belting out crazy fast improvisations with inexhaustible alacrity.
These facile fusions
join together myriad irregularly-shaped scraps of images, texts and textures to
form labyrinthine backgrounds that exude a rococo kind of complexity. Here, “edgy
art” acquires new meaning. In turn, the particulated forms of bodies and faces emerge
from their surrounding clamour, like fractions becoming whole numbers, and take
on a nearly sculptural solidity.
So welcome to a parade of paper with a pulse.
Have a rollicking romp through repurposed pulp festooned with the confetti of
Pop culture. Nerds, unite!
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