Nate Young // Artist talk // Robyne Robinson

Join XYandZ for an artist talk with artist Nate Young moderated by Robyne Robinson.

Check out this short video preview for the artist talk:
http://vimeo.com/29984614

Thursday October 6th 7p
3258 Minnehaha Ave S Mpls MN

In Young’s recent work, celebrities, pop stars, and other iconic figures are juxtaposed alongside California license plates. Formally, the drawings are placed next to each other through exacto fine cut-outs; parti...ally readable letters butt up against acutely drawn renderings of Kanye West, Charlton Heston and the late pop king Michael Jackson. The insertion of the portraits into groupings of seemingly arbitrary letter and number systems that half suggest a word or acronym tie deliberate but unstable relationships between them. A dead-eyed gazing Micheal Jackson stares at us from a cut out geometric shape sitting among plates reading “4PRV013” and “3NOH023”. In a similar way that poetry rests on the variable of language construction by placing word choices together, the work’s agency rests in the effectual insertion of the portraits into a setting of letters and numbers that may or may not form a relationship.