FAILE Canadian / American, b. 1975 / b. 1976
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FaileMacbeth (MIrror Mirror), 2006Silkscreen printed in colours on wove paper, mounted on spray-painted MDF.Signed and numbered from the edition of 250, impressed with the artists' blind stamp, and the publisher's blind stamp.Sheet: 69 x 49.5 cm ( 27 1/4 x 19 1/2 in.)
Frame: h 79 x w 58 cm (31 1/4 x 22 3/4 in.)Edition number 180 of 250View more details
FAILE (Pronounced "fail") is a Brooklyn-based artistic collaboration between Patrick McNeil (born 1975) and Patrick Miller (born 1976). 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 an 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.