Movin’ On Up

Page 61 Creative loafing – Mar.19 – Mar 25, 2003
By Felicia Feaster

ATLANTA_BASED ARTIST Eric Mack holds his own in the soaring ceilings of the Bank of America corporate lobby where his vibrantly colored mixed-media paintings are distracting enough to stop any suit in his or her tracks. Mixing scraps of found text in chunky, funky ‘70’s typeface, Japanese text, scraps of colored tissue paper, small levers and sockets, these infectiously energetic works suggest that the paintings might be further activated with the flip of a switch. Like cave paintings of a hopped-up post-millennial culture, the primal-futurist works bring to mind a potent, often competing whirl of influences from DJ culture and aerial city maps to computer circuit boards.

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