Faile valuation
A Brooklyn duo who built a chapel, an arcade, and a visual language out of pulp printing.
Faile is Patrick McNeil and Patrick Miller, working together from Brooklyn since the late 1990s, whose vocabulary comes from pulp paperbacks, comic panels, advertising and religious printing, layered and re-layered through stencil, screenprint and wheatpaste. The projects have grown well past pictures on walls: the Temple installation, the Deluxx Fluxx arcade of playable modified machines, and large painted wooden constructions that behave as objects rather than as paintings.
Unique works — paintings on wood, layered paste-ups, prayer wheels and boxes — sit above a substantial body of screenprint editions, and the editions themselves come in many variants with hand-finishing, overprinting and different substrates. That variation is where the valuation work is, since two sheets of the same image can be considerably apart. Condition on the wooden and mixed-media pieces should be judged against how they were made, which is deliberately distressed; separating original surface from later damage takes a proper look.
What a work by Faile is worth
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