A collection of reflections on “everyday” life
DATE: Opening Friday, November 2nd, 5-7:30 pm
LOCATION: 450 Harrison Ave #309
HOURS: By appointment
Pat Falco is a man of few words with a lot to say. Visual art as social commentary is the basis of much of his work. Falco has taken on hot button topics: affordable housing, capitalism, economic disparity, over-development, just to a name a few. Falco’s work has a graphic wit utizing stylized text, comic figures, colorful flat patterns that lead the viewer to the important issues at hand. Falco creates strong images that both question and satirize, while creating social awareness.
In one of Falco’s recent projects, an installation called “Luxury Waters” is a faux marketing and sales office for an imaginary 62-story luxury development in Fort Point Channel. The building, as conceived by the artist, is a version of a glass-encased triple-decker, a building style familiar to many Boston neighborhoods. While parodying the luxury real estate market, the project is a pointed critique of a housing market that is excluding more and more people, destabilizing neighborhoods, and changed the texture and feel of a city he grew up in. In a similar vein, Falco created The Headstone Mobile incubator during Hubweek, October 2018.
http://theheadstoneboston.com/ (website for the building)
http://upwardlivingboston.com/ (website for the fake development company, and the policy suggestions)
Pat Falco (b. 1987) received his BFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Falco’s work has been shown at The Luggage Store Gallery (SF), New Image Art (LA), SPACE Gallery (Portland ME), and the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum. Falco is a working artist living in Boston, MA.
This is Pat Falco’s first solo exhibition with Ellen Miller Gallery. Please join us for his opening reception, Friday November 2nd, from 5- 7:30pm
To see more of Pat Falco’s work, click HERE
