Deconstructionism: New Works By Chad Muska At Flat425

Deconstructionism at FLAT425 features heavily textured contemporary pieces created out of Chad Muska’s household and artistic relics. After having repeatedly blasted the same words and images on the streets for years, the two-dimensional aspect of graffiti art was not stimulating Muska anymore. “No matter how many layers of spray paint you put on a brick wall, it?s always going to be flat.” Out of boredom, the artist soon began to experiment with resin-heavy textures, manipulating and distorting imagery to make room for more intense abstractionist and expressionist gestures. The resulting artworks incorporate traditional materials with cement, silkscreen cutouts, broken mirror, plastic, pvc, jewelry and five years worth of shredded bills and various communication bits dumped on canvas and soaked in resin. ?Decode the message,? Muska challenges. The exhibition consists of 18 mixed media pieces, varying in size from 36 x 48? to 48 x 96,? as well as additional installation pieces. Muska began working on this show while living in New York, at a moment in his life when everything seemed to be falling apart. His fresh interpretation of deconstructionism exemplifies the ebb and flow, the breaking and reconstructing, and the beautiful release that comes from putting all the broken [...]

Source: http://www.lat34.com/2012/09/06/deconstructionism-new-works-by-chad-muska-at-flat425/

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