Art Files: Joey Serricchio
A selection of artwork from Doom; Joey Serricchio's senior exhibition at ArtCenter College of Design.
castle of ash, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, sulfur, sand, 8 x 11 inches, 2021.
Dry*, towels, thread, 12 x 12 inches each, 2021.
seaside, LCD, C++, MDF, 3 x 1 x 1.5 inches, 2021.
Ammonite, handmade QR Code, 6 KB, 2021.
Doom explores feelings of inevitability; a deep future and a deep past are unattainable. In this exhibition, Doom is reimagined to generate compassion for things we will never meet in a future where we won't be alive. The artist attempts this by presenting intimate scenes of deep time, billions of years before his current exhibit. Doom is a vicious end, but the works—delicately crafted and cared for—offer a different angle to the end of time and the end of living.
Joey Serricchio is a Los Angeles-based artist making conceptual art in a variety of interdisciplinary mediums. Serricchio makes work about time on large and small scales–like the time it takes to breathe in and out, or the time it takes for ecosystems to die. Their work comes from intense subjectivity and celebrates the banal and quiet things that can go overlooked—either because they are so brief, too long, or dismissed.