Ken Solomon's work explores the limitless range of interpretation, duplication or falsification of the same thing. A performance aspect omnipresent in the videos is also at the core of Ken Solomon’s stamp drawings. His meticulous gouache paintings and colored pencil drawings of comics, love, flags, birds, museums or Nobel Prize stamps on envelopes are posted from various locations incurring the risk of not reaching their destination or getting altered in transit. Postmodern fragments of communication, stamps have become the icons of obsolescence in a digital Flash scandal era. Born in New York, he lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. His work has been included in various group shows around the United States. In 2005 he had a solo show at Josée Bienvenu gallery. Currently, his video Micro & Soft on Macintosh Apple is on view at The Museum of Modern Art, New York and several of his drawings are featured in the inaugural exhibition Attention to Detail curated by Chuck Close at The FLAG Art Foundation, New York. On December 8th, 2007, his latest video work entitled The Wig Project previewed for the very first time during the Annual Sagamore Art Basel Brunch. He will have his second solo show at Josée Bienvenu gallery, New York in the spring of 2008.
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