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Gean Moreno

Gean Moreno's colorful sculptures are composed of multiple recycled materials. Several of these elements are sewn to one another; most of them, however, are held together with safety pins, and some of them are piled into a three-dimensional assemblage. The patchwork assemblage Gardy Loo^* was originally composed as a backdrop for a performance of a scat-metal band by the same name. The materials used by Moreno are borrowed from a visual fringe culture of flea markets, cheap pop objects and street aesthetics; the result resembles a psychedelic bulletin board. The excess, density and obsessive attention to details produce abstract compositions that may be interpreted as a poetic expression of bifurcated consciousness - of the social disorientation and confused identities that characterize contemporary mass culture.

Born in New York, 1972; lives and works in Miami, Florida

* The term "gardy Loo" was originally a cry used in Scotland to warn pedestrians when bedpans were about to be emptied from the upstairs window.