Reflecting the innovative tools employed in their production,
Avery Singer’s iconic paintings are complex interpretations of contemporary
social realities and technologies. The large-scale paintings portray worlds that emerge from digital renderings and take shape through manual and digital airbrush techniques, liquid and solid masking, and complex layering processes. In the exhibition “Unity Bachelor” at ICA Miami, Singer debuts a new body of work that reflects on identities on- and offline. These new paintings center a trio of digital characters, which the artist has created with features purchased from commercial vendors like Sketchfab and Quixel. Singer then used animation and design softwares, such as Daz 3D and Cinema 4D, to create the narrative imagery that unfolds across the works. In this series, Singer sets the story of the main characters Unity Bachelor and Priya Prasad in New York in 2001, a coming-of-age period and place for the artist. Their fictionalized love story is marked by the collective trauma of September 11, 2001, when Priya goes missing, while a third figure, an inebriated art student, who throughout Singer’s career has doubled as a self-portrait of sorts, roams Lower Manhattan.