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Drawn Curtains is a solo exhibition of artworks by mepaintsme, the pseudonym for the artist and curator whose personal and often dark imagery evokes the existential fears and anxieties associated with mortality, technology, and the unknown.
Working primarily with pencil on aged surfaces culled from book covers, end papers, catalogs and coloring books, the artist creates visual epitaphs from vestiges of a dying media, signaling our increasing disassociation with the physical world via developing technology. The artist states, “I’m interested in exploring both reasonable and unreasonable fears, and how they affect our collective psyche.”
Alongside the fourteen artworks presented in Drawn Curtains is an ongoing series titled Vatis Species whose Latin to English translation is Phantoms of Quality. In this series of portraits, the artist presents a grouping of ghosts from a bygone era, when the use of the hand had yet to be replaced by the computer. Drawn on antique notebook papers, book covers and stamp-saver booklets, each of the thirty-nine portraits are mounted to postcards, and presented in a format akin to trading cards.
Mepaintsme remains anonymous, living and working in the United States. He received a BFA in Painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art and attended artist residencies at AICAD, New York Studio Residency Program (New York, NY) and the Santa Fe Masters Program (Santa Fe, NM). For the past 30 years, he has worked as an illustrator and painter. He currently runs the online gallery MEPAINTSME with his partner, and is the sole curator behind the @mepaintsme Instagram account.
177 Duane Street, New York, NY 10013
Works on Paper on Fridges, Harkawik, New York
𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘗𝘢𝘱𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘯 𝘍𝘳𝘪𝘥𝘨𝘦𝘴 is an international survey of artworks made on paper substrate—gouaches, ballpoint pen drawings, oil on cotton rag, collages, prints, charcoal drawings, photograms, rubbings, sketches in colored pencil, oilstick, flashe on cardboard, etc—hung with magnets on identical brand new full size Whirlpool refrigerators temporarily installed in our New York gallery for the duration of the show. 99 artworks, 66 artists from 33 countries on 22 fridges: 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘗𝘢𝘱𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘯 𝘍𝘳𝘪𝘥𝘨𝘦𝘴 looks at the many conflicting modalities of the paper artwork: preparatory drawing; site of discovery; fragile, ephemeral thing to be protected; castoff, shy notebook page; primary, time honored support, monument to all that can happen in the space of a single millimeter. The inclusion of domestic appliances identifies the gallery as a site for the consideration of systems of exchange and modulation, and points to the delicate balance of functional systems that create habitability in an urban environment. Using them to display small artworks furthermore speaks to the notion of living with art, and invites participating artists to meditate equally on the relationship between the home, studio, and city, as the one between the mind and the hand.
„Die Wirklichkeit ist sowieso da“ (Gruppenausstellung), 18.08.-18.09.2022, WELTKUNSTZIMMER, Düsseldorf, LINK
Aviator Meise (Gruppenausstellung)
Kunsthaus Rhenania Kunsthafen e.V., Köln
Konzert Die Bäume 18.09., 19h Kunstverein Schwerin
Biennale Warszawa Warschau, Polen 1.10.2020
“PHOENIX THE RESURRECTION SHOW”, (Gruppenausstellung) 11.9.2020 bei Galerie Rompone Köln
Robert Kraiss (Einzelausstellung) 1. Februar 2020 bei Tobias Hantmann Berlin
Tobias Hantmann, Berlin, 2020
Tobias Hantmann, Berlin, 2020
Tobias Hantmann, Berlin, 2020
»Munchs Gäste« (Gruppenausstellung) 7. Dezember 2019 im Edvard-Munch-Haus in Warnemünde
THE LION SLEEPS TONIGHT (Gruppenausstellung) 12. Juni - 28. August 2019 @ CIRCUS EINS, Rügen
