NYAB Event - Bjorn Copeland "The Soft Serve"

Bjorn Copeland "The Soft Serve"

Jack Hanley

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Co-founder of the experimental rock band Black Dice, Bjorn Copeland creates a visual universe that resonates of his abstract musical compositions. His hypnotic collages of kaleidoscopic patterns, influenced by psychedelia and Pop art, comment on the malleability of perception. Using everyday consumer culture imagery as starting point, Copeland perverts brand-making semiotics to morph them into conceptual
works that underscore the uncanny. Soft Serve—the name given to the method of doubling the amount of air in ice cream—references the
commercial snack in jest, while illustrating a serious artistic process, both metaphorically and literally. Fluorescent liquid plastic fills the gaps in the grid of a department store shopping cart in one of his most recent sculptures; another features retail products emptied out and reworked into blurry abstract shapes.
Copeland recasts objects in order to alienate them from their commercial purpose.

Media

• Drawing
• Other
• Sculpture

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