Todd Brainard and Paul Paiement provide interesting counterbalance to one another in that Brainard’s hyper-real chemical landscapes are relatively stark, distant, and foreboding while Paiement’s vividly rendered amalgams jocularly fuse various species of insects with consumer products ranging from athletic shoes to compact disc players. Although their mechanisms and subject matter are decidedly disparate both artists address the seemingly indeterminable boundaries that—we like to believe—separate the natural world from our synthetic reality.
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