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A suite of new paintings and a major sculptural installation by Avery Singer (b. 1987, New York) debuts at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami (ICA Miami) this April in the artist’s first large scale U.S. museum exhibition. Building on the artist’s pioneering explorations of the convergence of painting and technology, Unity Bachelor illustrates the ongoing evolution of her practice, as she continues to push the boundaries of painting and for the first time, introduces three-dimensional forms through installation and sculpture.
Curated by ICA Miami’s Irma and Norman Braman artistic director Alex Gartenfeld and curator Stephanie Seidel, Unity Bachelor is on view through Oct. 15.
“Avery Singer is creating the future of painting; her work is radically innovative in both subject matter and her approach to technology as a medium,” Gartenfeld said.
“ICA Miami explores the most experimental of practices, and this exhibition sees the unveiling of important new works, and new aspects of this leading artist’s three-dimensional work,” Gartenfeld added.
“Shifting between digital and analog processes, Singer’s work references the historical avant-gardes as much as it incorporates computer generated images,” Seidel said.
“Through her use of 3D modeling software to create visuals that the artist subsequently translates into unique and technically elaborate paintings, Singer pushes the medium of painting towards new horizons.”
With Unity Bachelor, Singer imagines an entirely new world, one that creates new possibilities while drawing from the artist’s New York upbringing at the turn of the millennium. The exhibition takes its title from an eponymous fictional character of the artist’s creation, who in this exhibition is coupled with another fictional character, Priya Prasad. Their love story takes place in New York in 2001, a coming-of-age place and period for Singer.
The couple’s romantic tale is shadowed by the collective trauma of the Sept. 11 attacks, referenced in haunting paintings in the exhibition, including Free Fall (2022).
Recognized for her innovative approach to painting, Singer’s works take shape through manual and digital airbrush techniques, liquid and solid masking, and complex layering processes. This latest body of work uses animation and design software including Daz 3D and Cinema 4D to create digital renderings which she distorts by gestural liquid, intricate masking and hand airbrushing acrylic onto canvas.
Some of the works also reference modernist art, such as Singer’s Nude Descending a Staircase (2022), which is influenced by Marcel Duchamp’s iconic 1912 work of the same name and explores the nature of form and memory. The works are set amidst an immersive mise-en-scène, including architectural references like Minoru Yamasaki’s archived windows for the World Trade Center, office furniture, and a new sculpture of etched glass.
About Avery Singer
Avery Singer (b. 1987, New York) lives and works in New York. She has been honored with solo museum presentations at Museum Ludwig, Cologne (2019); Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne (2017); Secession, Vienna (2016); Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (2016); Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2015-16); Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin (2015), and Kunsthalle Zurich (2014-15).
Singer’s work is represented in the permanent collections of the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami; Art Institute of Chicago; Guggenheim Museum, New York; Hirshhorn Museum Washington, DC; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Tate Britain; Hammer Museum; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, among others.
The Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami is located at 61 NE 41 St., Miami, FL 33137. For more information, visit www.icamiami.org.
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