Jack Featherly
Region: Pacific Coast
These paintings use an archaic visual language as a universal
filter for redistributing meaning. ASCII codes appear in the
paintings on various types of backgrounds. Functioning as
literal op art, the code is hand-painted, which incorporates the
likelihood of human error. The ASCII paintings are titled
Unpattern to reference the way our eyes sort information and
look for pattern. In this case, the pattern is a variable series of
keystrokes that represent dark and light, but the distribution
is forever uneven in its repetition, since it is applied to a
representation of an object. In other paintings, found images
are removed from their original context or presented without
accompanying text. The images maintain their aesthetic power
while functioning as blocks or sheets of color that obstruct
concrete resolution.