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>> The book DEAD FINGERS TRACE surveys a formidable body of works on paper, reproduced with every bit of folding, foxing, staining, tearing, and yellowing within them, to convey an inherent sense of mortal fragility.
With an essay by artist and psychiatrist Martin Wilner and an in-depth interview with mepaintsme.
Limited printing of 300 copies.
>> AND available ONLY WITH PREORDERS until February 14th: VATIS SPECIES, a 20-page chapbook that collects a series of meticulously drawn portraits–a grouping of ghosts from a bygone era created on antique notebook papers, book covers and stamp-saver booklets.
Limited printing of 100 copies, signed and numbered.
ALL PREORDERS WILL BEGIN SHIPPING IN APRIL. Regular sales begin in May.
"Mepaintsme works in the super-delicious sweet spot where clean minimalist lines intersect with a high density of incident upon a patchwork field messy with medium corrections–the whole resulting in hilarious, darkly joyous miseries that come at the viewer in wave upon wave of elegance and ingeniously cruel invention! In each work, the artist balances the superabundant contradictions of our personal feelings upon the tip of a finger in deceptively weighty, laugh-out-loud scenarios! I love love LOVE this brilliant work!!!" —Guy Maddin, filmmaker, author, and artist
"There is a familiarity to the visages of mepaintsme–perhaps hauntings from the ghosts of Charles Addams or Chester Gould. Careful though, as you step over their dissected corpses. Informed by the thousands of pictures culled over, through his practice as an image collector, the result are these wonderfully intimate drawings of struggle, intrigue, and double-cross." —Matt Leines, artist and designer
MEPAINTSME (b. 1969, New Jersey) is an artist and curator based in the United States. He holds a BFA in Painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art and attended the AICAD New York Studio Residency Program. His work has been featured in solo exhibitions at Jack Hanley Gallery, NYC; Susan Berke Gallery, NYC; and Laundry King, Livingston Manor, NY. He has also participated in group exhibitions at 48 Hester Street, NYC; Court Tree Collective, Brooklyn, NY; The Trophy Room, Los Angeles; Schlössle Society, Lenningen, DE; CRG Gallery, NYC; Pierogi 2000, Brooklyn, NY; The Kresge Foundation Gallery, NJ; Ben Shahn Galleries at William Paterson University, NJ; St. Cecilia’s Convent, Brooklyn, NY; MICA Gallery, Baltimore, MD; the Society of Illustrators, NYC; and Sotheby’s, NYC. He currently co-runs the online gallery MEPAINTSME with his partner and serves as the sole curator behind the @mepaintsme Instagram account.