FAILE

Where Wild Won't Break

FAILE is a collaboration between Brooklyn-based artists Patrick McNeil and Patrick Miller. Since 1999, McNeil and Miller have constructed multimedia installations and large-scale paintings and sculptures. These works have catapulted them to the forefront of post-Warhol imagery. 



While FAILE initially operated outside of mainstream contemporary art, they quickly gained widespread awareness due to their groundbreaking use of materials, images and technology. FAILE’s culture-driven iconography and visual imagery blends high and low culture into works that can thrive either in the gallery or on the street.



Where Wild Won’t Break features FAILE’s hallmark prayer wheels. First introduced in 2008, the large, kinetic prayer wheels are hand carved from merbau, an exotic Indo-Pacific hardwood. Serving as an instrument for meditative contemplation, the wheels permit the participant to experience the images in a manner consistent with ancient Tibetan practices. As the participant turns the wheel, the wheel responds with a flow of reincarnating moving images.

All images shown of interior are installation shots of the exhibition.

FAILE: Where Wild Won't Break, FAILE, 2013 - 2013, From the collection of: Dallas Contemporary
,
FAILE: Where Wild Won't Break, FAILE, 2013 - 2013, From the collection of: Dallas Contemporary
,
FAILE: Where Wild Won't Break, FAILE, 2013 - 2013, From the collection of: Dallas Contemporary
Show lessRead more

FAILE Wheels installation view, 

Acrylic
on Hand-Carved Wood, Mounted on Spinning Steel Base, 2013. 

FAILE: Where Wild Won't Break, FAILE, 2013 - 2013, From the collection of: Dallas Contemporary
Show lessRead more

Faile, "Faile Tower: Lincoln Center (Partial)", 2013. 

The fourteen-foot tower residing at the center of the exhibition echoes FAILE’s recent collaboration with the New York City Ballet at Lincoln Center. The immense tower is enveloped in FAILE’s signature imagery. The individual images combine endlessly to create an array of narrative possibilities, which extend into similar copper and wood works behind the tower. The pieces incorporate Texas themes drawn from FAILE’s recent visit to Dallas.

FAILE: Where Wild Won't Break, FAILE, 2013 - 2013, From the collection of: Dallas Contemporary
,
FAILE: Where Wild Won't Break, FAILE, 2013 - 2013, From the collection of: Dallas Contemporary
Show lessRead more
FAILE: Where Wild Won't Break, FAILE, 2013 - 2013, From the collection of: Dallas Contemporary
Show lessRead more

FAILE, "Moonlight on the Trailside," 















Acrylic, Silkscreen Ink and Copper on Wood in Steel Frame, 2013

FAILE: Where Wild Won't Break, FAILE, 2013 - 2013, From the collection of: Dallas Contemporary
Show lessRead more
FAILE: Where Wild Won't Break, FAILE, 2013 - 2013, From the collection of: Dallas Contemporary
Show lessRead more
FAILE: Where Wild Won't Break, FAILE, 2013 - 2013, From the collection of: Dallas Contemporary
Show lessRead more
FAILE: Where Wild Won't Break, FAILE, 2013 - 2013, From the collection of: Dallas Contemporary
Show lessRead more

FAILE mural at 417 2nd Avenute in Deep Ellum/Fair Park, Dallas, Texas. 

FAILE: Where Wild Won't Break, FAILE, 2013 - 2013, From the collection of: Dallas Contemporary
Show lessRead more

FAILE mural at 331 Singleton Bouldevard at Trinity Groves in Dallas, Texas

FAILE: Where Wild Won't Break, FAILE, 2013 - 2013, From the collection of: Dallas Contemporary
,
FAILE: Where Wild Won't Break, FAILE, 2013 - 2013, From the collection of: Dallas Contemporary
,
FAILE: Where Wild Won't Break, FAILE, 2013 - 2013, From the collection of: Dallas Contemporary
Show lessRead more
FAILE: Where Wild Won't Break, FAILE, 2013 - 2013, From the collection of: Dallas Contemporary
Show lessRead more
Credits: Story

Artists—Patrick McNeil and Patrick Miller

Credits: All media
The story featured may in some cases have been created by an independent third party and may not always represent the views of the institutions, listed below, who have supplied the content.
Stories from Dallas Contemporary
Explore more
Home
Discover
Play
Nearby
Favorites