FAILE - Hollywood, skateboard deck skate deck on 7 ply maplewood with official COA, 2019

FAILE - Hollywood, skateboard deck skate deck on 7 ply maplewood with official COA, 2019

FAILE
HOLLYWOOD, 2019
7 ply maple wood
Unnumbered edition of 150
Accompanied by a COA from BEYOND THE STREETS signed by
curator Roger Gastman with the stated edition size of 150
FAILE (Pronounced "fail") is a Brooklyn-based artistic collaboration between Patrick McNeil (born 1975, Edmonton, Alberta) and Patrick Miller (born 1976, Minneapolis, Minnesota). Since its inception in 1999, FAILE has been known for a wide ranging multimedia practice recognizable for its explorations of duality through a fragmented style of appropriation and collage. While painting and printmaking remain central to their approach, over the past decade FAILE has adapted its signature mass culture-driven iconography to vast array of materials and techniques, from wooden boxes and window pallets to more traditional canvas, prints, sculptures, stencils, installation, and prayer wheels. FAILE's work is constructed from found visual imagery, and blurs the line between “high” and “low” culture, but recent exhibitions demonstrate an emphasis on audience participation, a critique of consumerism, and the incorporation of religious media, architecture, and site-specific/archival research into their work.