MARC SEGUIN – MY CENTURY
2012-09-17Using charcoal and oil on raw canvas, Séguin achieves near photographic grisaille images that read as “postcards of now”. Unabashedly tackling hot-button issues such as economic disparity, human rights, and environmental exploitation, Séguin’s large-scale paintings are deceptively beautiful reflections of the era in which they were produced.
The artist’s brazen approach to image-making frequently pairs his exquisite renderings with unexpected appliqués like taxidermy animals, rhinestones, tar and locks of hair to create bold motifs that bespeak our contemporary climate. Lunging road-kill coyotes, tar dripping from their fangs, flank a young woman in My Century, We are safe as long as the poor have faith – a siren for social injustice. My Century, Biutiful Smog and My Century, Biutiful Wilderness play with our assumptions of natural beauty as billowing clouds, soft with velvet greys and kohl blacks, are actually the products of smog and the burning of natural resources.
Exhibition runs through to October 13th, 2012
Mike Weiss Gallery
520 West 24th Street
New York
NY
10011
