LAURIE FRICK | Continuous partial attention

I use pattern, words and color to replicate the feel of neurons firing in the brain. I imagine the brain breaks down visual time into bits where the novel and odd are as essential to recollection as the intensely emotional. Vaguely familiar cut-up materials stand-in for everything you stumble across in a day, the amount you see and forget and the things you give only partial-attention. How much does the brain take in every day, every logo and advertisment online, every storefront you pass by, the packaging along every aisle in the grocery store, every ad on television. What does the mind retain? CLICK image to see them bigger.

3 Hard Questions, 2011 | Paper collage on 4 aluminum panels, 24" x 96"

One of 3 covers made for the Texas Biennial catalogs - the curator Virginia Rutledge gave them away.

January, 54in x 72in, found postcards, junk-mail, paperback book covers, cut and adhered to 9 cradled hardpanels, 2010

"Everything you forgot yesterday", 6'x9' cut found paper on 9 cradled hardpanels

"Everything you forgot yesterday", outside the studio in Austin while photographing it

"Everything you forgot yesterday" closeup detail

'Boxing Day', found postcards, junk mail and paperback book covers, cut and adhered to 8 aluminum panels. 48in x 96in, 2009

Green voids, 24" x 72", cut paper in polymer emulsion on aluminum composite panels

Green tracking time, 24in x 72in, cut paper in polymer emulsion on aluminum composite panels, 2010

Man men, 2009, 72" x 72", cut paper on 9 cradled hardpanels

Man men, 2009, 72in x 72in, cut paper on 9 cradled hardpanels

White, White, White, 2009, 54" x 96", cut paper on 12 cradled hardpanels

White, White, White, 2009, 54in x 96in, cut paper on 12 cradled hardpanels

Wyoming, 2009, 24" x 72", cut paper on 3 cradled hardpanels

Wyoming, 2009, 24in x 72in, cut paper on 3 cradled hardpanels