Paul Loughney: Consequences of Competing Narratives Paul Loughney continues to compose collages in an intuitive process, attempting to make images a bit like visual hallucinations, a kind of delirium, all the while pursuing that intimate space between viewer and image, and creating an experience that rewards slow looking. His process includes collage, drawing, painting -  and appropriation. Loughney's   new series of collages exist s  in the space between abstraction  and  figuration, anthropology  and  storytelling : w here belief mingles with magical thinking.  For the first time, text and frottage   are   introduced . Disjointed letters are  compressed into spheres  as   graphic as they are ambiguous. Fractured words seem to act as a metaphor for incomplete thought s,  an inability to fully articulate reality, and the failure of inept ...

Paul Loughney: Consequences of Competing Narratives - Sunday Nov 7, 4 - 7pm, at Vorderzimmer, 280 Van Buren Street, Bed-Stuy/Brooklyn, NY. Artist Paul Loughney shows brand-new, beautifully dark collages at Vorderzimmer's re-opening, 22 months after our Covid shuttering.  Join us for art, conversation, and refreshments. Vaccinated people only pls, kids under 12 w/mask, back yard open. Paul Loughney: Thaumaturgical, 30" x 30" x 1", Collage on paper mounted on canvas, 2021