5/29: THE TRILOGIE TRIAGE // new works by R. SCOTT WHIPKEY

THE TRILOGIE TRIAGE
new works by R. SCOTT WHIPKEY
May 29-30

Opening Reception: Sunday, May 29, 4-8
Open Hours: Monday, May 30, noon-4

ACRE Projects
1913 W 17th Street

Eisenhower, pencil on paper, glass & metal frame, 12 x 10 in, 2009

THE TRILOGIE TRIAGE
This exhibition features eight recent drawings by Brooklyn-based artist R. Scott Whipkey. These works are part of an ongoing investigation of images related to the current U.S. involvement in the Middle East. The project began in 2009 with a meticulous series of drawings replicating former defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s signature. All completed in ball-point pen, Whipkey continued to use basic instruments used in day-to-day life: pencils, Sharpie markers, correction fluid, etc. This most recent collection of works, “The Triage Trilogie,” focuses on three images, replicated three times, in three differing approaches, all rendered in pencil and marker. As all these images were culled from (and simultaneously imitate) the television “screen,” Whipkey re-presents these pictures back to us, pixel by pixel, investigating our past, present and future understanding of these three specific images.

R. SCOTT WHIPKEY received his BFA from Columbia College in 2006 and will be entering the MFA program (in Painting & Sculpture) at Virginia Commonwealth University this Fall. He lives and works in Brooklyn, NY and Richmond, VA.

More information about R. Scott Whipkey can be found at http://www.rswhipkey.blogspot.com/.