BOP! Adventures in American Collage
May 26 – June 26, 2022
BOP! Adventures in American Collage
Curated by Tony Fitzpatrick
May 26 – June 26
Lisa Barcy, Lou Beach, Ray Borchers, Clarisse Casalino, Tony Fitzpatrick, Josh Grotto, Paul Loughney, Owen Spryszak, Carter Spurrier, Charles Spurrier, Mary O’Brien Spurrier, Swoon, Danny Torres, Paloma Trecka, Mandy Cano Villalobos
Satchel Projects is thrilled to present BOP! Adventures in American Collage, curated by Tony Fitzpatrick, on view from May 26 – June 26th, 2022. The gallery will host an opening reception on Thursday, May 26 from 5–8PM.
BOP! brings together 15 artists whose work represents a diverse stylistic range, but who all share in common an improvisational approach to image-making. Artists in the exhibition include Lisa Barcy, whose diverse practice can range from the ridiculous to the formal, and sometimes a combination of both; Lou Beach, who appropriates images from the past, rearranging their disparate parts to create amalgams of poetic humor and beauty; Ray Borchers, who reveals her dry humor and understanding of art ‘s greater context through storybook scenes and lazed female forms; Clarisse Casalino, whose work implies intimacies gone awry, longing, and at times an intense misreading of the human experience; Tony Fitzpatrick, whose works are inspired by Chicago street culture, cities he has traveled to, children’s books, tattoo designs, and folk art; Josh Grotto, whose works are an elegiac confluence of abstract expressionism, urban wheat-pasting, and traditional portraiture; Paul Loughney, whose work exists in the space between abstraction & figuration, anthropology & storytelling and where belief mingles with magical thinking; Owen Spryszak, whose biomorphic, androgynous figures are an allusion to environmental destruction and biological alterations; Carter Spurrier, who creates scenes that seem at once familiar and alien, ethereal and material. Charles Spurrier, whose multi-media collages draw from the world around him; Mary O’Brien Spurrier, whose 3-dimensional constructions evolve much the way that life forms grow; Swoon, whose collage and assemblage have their roots in street art and community engagement; Danny Torres, whose imagery draws from Chicago neighborhood life; Paloma Trecka, whose color is inspired by Mexico, and forms by the architecture of Chicago; and Mandy Cano Villalobos, whose repetitively-scorched discarded book covers are a means of engaging the past and experiencing time as it unfolds.