Published by DelMonico Books/Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami. Edited with foreword by Alex Gartenfeld, Stephanie Seidel. Text by Eva Hagberg, Tim Griffin. Interview by Hugh Hayden.
Reflecting the innovative tools employed in their production, the iconic paintings of New York–based Avery Singer (born 1987) are complex interpretations of contemporary social realities and technologies. The large-scale paintings portray worlds that emerge from digital renderings and take shape through manual and digital airbrush techniques, liquid and solid masking, and complex layering processes. Unity Bachelor presents a striking series of narrative paintings featuring a trio of digital characters. Singer sets the story of the main characters Unity Bachelor and Priya Prasad in New York in 2001, a coming-of-age period and place for the artist. Their fictionalized love story is marked by the collective trauma of September 11, 2001, when Priya goes missing, while a third figure, an inebriated art student, who has doubled as a self-portrait of sorts throughout Singer’s career, roams Lower Manhattan.
Published by JRP|Ringier. Edited by Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Beatrix Ruf. Text by Matthew Brannon, et al.
In her first monograph, New York-based artist Avery Singer (born 1987) presents her semi-autobiographical, and often socially critical, figurative oeuvre. Her meticulously detailed black-and-white paintings appear almost machine-made, thwarting our visual expectations and raising the issue of excessive digitized matter in today's society.
Avery Singer