Piece description from the artist
Atari (Flower Wallpaper) is a permanent marker drawing on paper, using a collection of old Atari games from my childhood collection. In my work, erasure, fragmentation and simplification represent the imperfect, limited nature of memory and the constant notion of flux we experience in an increasingly digital world. In many cases, I want to create incomplete templates, scenarios that serve as blanks to fill in, rather than specific individuals or events. The constant tech evolution is one of contemporary society's main themes, something I’ve experienced throughout my life. Pixelation and computer manipulation represent the merging of the physical and digital reality, while the people in the images and those old things that were once so important, represent how quickly things change.
Hollis Brown Thornton (USA, 1976) was born and raised in Aiken, South Carolina. In spring of 1999, Thornton received his B.F.A. from the University of South Carolina in Columbia, South Carolina. Since August 2005, Thornton has been working out of his warehouse studio in Aiken, SC, as a full time artist. Thornton paints and draws the way memory stores and replicates things in an inaccurate, personal way. In his work, erasure, fragmentation and simplification represent the imperfect, limited nature of memory and the constant notion of flux in the physical and digital world. Thornton wants to replicate the transitional state between the past and the unknown and focus on the idea of being in a perpetual state of potential.
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