Building Blocks

FriendsWithYou is proud to present Building Blocks - a collection of paintings, over a decade in the making. Known for their reductive approach to geometric abstraction and playful imagery, Building Blocks introduces a series of paintings, executed in the artists' customary style. Rather than merely flat wall pieces, these paintings act as two- dimensional extensions of their prolific sculptural, graphical and experiential installation works. They are quasi portraits; the abstraction of human visage allows viewers to project their own emotions. In this manner, the portraits become vacillating reflections, reliant and transformed via audience interaction.This exchange, echoed by the artists' experiential sculptural installations, delivers these paintings from flat to dimensional, aesthetics to conceptual. Presented alongside the new series of paintings, the artist exhibit select sculptural pieces, meant to illustrate the progression between their installation and the "portraiture."