Michael Scoggins: Sic Semper Tyrannis    

>October 16-December 30, 2008

Michael Scoggins meticulously creates giant sheets of notebook and graph paper, complete with binder holes and ragged edges, to emulate the larger-than-life world that children experience. Onto these surfaces he scrawls musings that vacillate between childhood innocence and adult worldliness, with a baffling sincerity. Ironic, humorous, meaningful and socially critical, these large scale works on paper utilize the perspective of a child to address fears, politics, crushes, and mass-media messages that face us all.

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Michael Scoggins,

Out Gooded, 2007.

Marker, prismacolor on paper.

67 x 51 inches. Courtesy of Adler and Co., 20

 

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Michael Scoggins, Out Gooded, 2007.

Marker, prismacolor on paper.

67 x 51 inches. Courtesy of Adler and Co., 2008