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Mark Moore Fine Art
Penelope Umbrico: Bad Display
Mark Moore Gallery is pleased to present Bad Display, a solo show of new work by Penelope Umbrico. In her second exhibition with the gallery, the artist focuses on the screen – a technology we all use and that we have become accustomed to thinking of as invisible.
Umbrico takes as her starting point images of used (and often broken) LCD Televisions and computer monitors for sale on consumer-to-consumer market websites such as eBay. As objects that once promised the height of technology and networked communication, the LCD displays the artist finds (on her screen via web-searches) are for sale, proving their failure in this regard.
Umbrico says, “I became interested in the incidental beauty of the screens because they are derived from the failure of their own promising technology. By presenting these inadvertent abstractions as formal compositions in their own right, I am collapsing the obsolescence and breakdown of new technology with the visionary aesthetic of Modernism. Here the broken, uncontrolled liquid and light of the screen undermines the modular clean-ness that modernism and technology assert.”
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