Kamau Amu Patton at Callicoon Fine Arts
March 13, 2015 by Philip Watts 
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Callicoon Fine Arts
49 Delancey Street
New York, NY 10002
March 1 – March 29, 2015
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Another artist from the Callicoon Fine Arts roster will appear in the pages of our forthcoming twelfth issue, but the Lower East Side gallery's current show by artist Kamau Amu Patton is also worth bringing to your attention. Personally, I'm looking forward to returning to New York next week, after the intense magazine production schedule, and unwinding my mind by standing in front of glitches, canvases, wires, static, feedback and wall-mounted hardware. I've very recently embraced wiring as an art form. In a world of wifi and wireless, it's amazing how many things still require plugging in. And the desire by many to hide away the tangle of bright cords and power supplies surely says something about our ever-growing collective OCD. At home I've found myself staring at the wires coming from the stereo, snaking behind the television and admiring their unintentional sculptural form. Pretentious, I know. But with this in mind, Patton's first solo show with Callicoon offers another representation of technology as art.
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