#dave miko

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Dave Miko, The troll is watching those goats walking in the weather. He’s hungry, 2012.

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Dave Miko, The girl became a painting, 2012.

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Dave Miko, Petrified Sunray, 2008

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Dave Miko at Real Fine Arts

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Dave Miko & Tom Thayer @ Eleven Rivington, NYC

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Dave Miko & Tom Thayer, Baseless Legion of Architects Rent Asunder, 2013. Installation at Eleven Rivington, New York. More

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The first exhibition of Dave Miko & Tom Thayer at Eleven Rivington, titled “Baseless Legion of Architects Rent Asunder”, comprises six new video projections onto painted aluminum panels. The team of Dave Miko & Tom Thayer debuted their hybrid process at The Kitchen in 2011, titled “New World Pig”. Their practice consists of collaboratively worked animations that are projected onto paintings on aluminum.

Both artists also maintain respective solo careers – Miko was featured in Greater New York at MoMA PS1 in 2010 and Thayer was included in the 2012 Whitney Biennial. This new series presents a progression of their work towards more ambitious scale and pictorially experimental territory.

Using mutually culled imagery as a point of departure, Dave Miko & Tom Thayer develop their work through an ongoing visual dialogue. Motifs from Thayer’s heavily processed, vivid animations carry over onto—and sometimes derive from—the surfaces of Miko’s mixed media paintings. Their newest work revolves around the movement of various beings through physical space, oscillating between the external appearance of objects and an internal visual cogitation. Portal imagery (windows, doors, frames) fuse with faces and masks, architecture and nature as the figure travels from one type of space to the next. They use a breadth of painting materials aimed at blurring the boundary between projected and painted image. The colored light of the projected animation reacts differently to each specific surface, be it oil, chalk, enamel, fluorescent colors, spray paint, or raw metal.

The works are conceived and developed over months through a back-and-forth dialogue about changes in narrative structure and tone, fine-tuning the relationship between Miko’s unorthodox painting style and Thayer’s use of analog video effects. The result is a beautifully tenuous installation; an expansive and experimental incarnation of painting that unifies two seemingly exclusive media. 

- Eleven Rivington, New York