Goff + Rosenthal Berlin is pleased to present Plastic Palace, a series of new paintings by Los Angeles-based artist Faris McReynolds.


15 Nov 2007 to 5 Jan 2008

Painting from film stills extracted from sources of popular culture, McReynolds explores how an image can be broken down through multiple layers of appropriation, from film to video to digital media to paint. Depicting group activities such as party scenes, sun bathing and show-boat performances, McReynolds magnifies the contrast between the immediacy of spectacle and the slow reveal of an event’s details. His imagery lingers in the in-between depicting moments in transition. Relishing this space between cause and effect, McReynolds bestows the mundane activities of a self-congratulating American culture with a sense of seduction, violence, intrigue and suspense.


McReynolds’ brushwork ranges from an expressionist palette-knife impasto to delicate watercolor to bold illustration reflecting a historically diverse range of influences including Warhol, Bacon, the Impressionists and the 1980’s work of Richard Prince. Using a loose narrative style and a seamless melding of assorted techniques, McReynolds immortalizes the minute and fleeting in high saturation and bold contrast of color.