This collage features images sourced from various periodicals, including music and fashion magazines

This collage features images sourced from various periodicals, including music and fashion magazines, such as the Fader and Interview; international newspapers; and photography from the artist’s own collection. Sometimes referred to by Eric N. Mack  as “mood board” paintings, these collages are a gathering place for the artist’s many inspirations and reference points. For instance, occupying the surface are a number of full-page advertisements from fashion house Céline, what Mack calls an “elegy to Phoebe Philo,” the former creative director of the brand. Each of these images exists both on its own and in relation to the others, letting a viewer make associations between “characters” as they see fit.Though working here with representational images, the “mood board” remains within the language of painting: Mack variously soaks and stains the surfaces of some of the images as he does his textiles, and they are arranged with consideration to the modernist grid.Posted by Ashley JamesBrooklyn Museum, Installation view, Eric N. Mack: Lemme walk across the room, January 11, through July 7, 2019. Photo: Jonathan Dorado -- source link

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