This afternoon Bottleneck Gallery and The Parallax Poster Co. are pairing two very different studies in obsession, one neon-sick and fragmented, the other almost severe in how little it needs to say. Matt Ryan Tobin’s Taxi Driver is built around a large, cool-toned portrait of Travis Bickle, but the face is interrupted by a grid of dark blocks and cropped panels that turn him into a broken signal. Alongside it, Rafa Orrico takes Hitchcock’s Rope in the opposite direction: a pair of black leather-gloved hands pull taut lengths of rope across the top of the print, the cord threading directly through the heavy title letters before dropping into a loose loop below. The design is spare, but that’s the point; the tension sits in the crossing lines, the restraint, and the ugly plainness of the rope itself against the aged paper background. Two films, two artists, and two cleanly different visual approaches, all going live this afternoon through Bottleneck Gallery and The Parallax Poster Co.
Rope by Rafa Orrico
24″ x 36″ Screen Print
$60 – edition of 100
Taxi Driver by Matt Ryan Tobin
24″ x 36″ Screen Print
- Regular: $60 – edition of 150
- Variant: $75 – edition of 75
