Mark Flood's Exhibition at Maccarone Explores Digital Age Branding with Paintings and Found Objects

Mark Flood's exhibition at Maccarone in New York, running from 2 May to 28 July 2017, features paintings and installations critiquing digital culture. The show includes large-scale canvases depicting blurred corporate logos like Deutsche Bank and Google, with works such as 'Captured Serpent' (2017) and 'Google Murder Suicide' (2017) that evoke motion and abstraction. Flood incorporates worn black couches and carpets from his Houston studio, creating an analog contrast to the sleek digital imagery. Other pieces include lace-stencilled paintings like 'Paddock' (2015) and 'The Women's Cult' (2017), blending craft aesthetics with monochrome elements. Twitter feed paintings, such as 'Don't Be Stupid' (2017), reference conspiracy theories about Julian Assange, while cardboard works like 'Serve the Community Bitter' (2016) add a graffiti-like edge. A grid of pages from a 1939 Greta Garbo scrapbook highlights historical branding parallels. The exhibition examines the persistence of branding across eras, using visual distortion and mixed media to question neoliberal digital pleasures and terrors.