Faile, Flag of our Fathers (2008).
With their brazen, colorful, comic book-inspired prints, Faile, the artist collective founded by Patrick McNeil, Patrick Miller and Aiko Nakagawa, helped spearhead the global contemporary street art scene in the late 1990s New York. Now, they’ve taken that same spirited fervor across the Atlantic for a massive show at Lazarides Gallery.
The new works make use of the tri-fecta’s signature layering and tearing, but draw heavily on Native American motifs of the Southwest (the Patrick’s grew up in Arizona) that they haven’t previously explored. In their statement, the artists remarked that their new works explore “the expanse of contemporary commercialism at the expense of society’s connection with nature and spirit.”
