Snack Aisle: Paintings by Miles Shelton

19 South Angell St near Wayland Ave, Providence RI

15 September, 2022

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Snack Aisle Recent paintings by Miles Shelton Sept 15–Oct 31, 2023 Reception September 15, 6–8 PM Paper Nautilus Books 19 South Angell Street, Wayland Square Providence, Rhode Island papernautilusbooks.com Bodega patrons are intimately familiar with a particular type of price sticker. Bright orange with bold, stamped black text, they’re often circular and rectangular—jumping out to compete with an onslaught of brightly designed product packages and deli meat photos that adorn every square inch of these tightly packed mini-megastores. Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, painter Miles Shelton started collecting the stickers upon finding a single roll of $13.99s for sale in a supermarket back in 2010. Since then, he’s used price tags as a prompt to explore childhood nostalgia, painting-as-documentation, scale, and permanence. “I wanted to share a peek into the collection,” he says, “while also trying to make a perfect “9” on top of an orange that would singe the retina...leaving viewers thinking about it well after they left.” Studying sign painting tutorial videos on YouTube, Shelton became interested in two strategies: finding strange, warped, or odd price stickers to recreate exactly as-is, and then making up his own numbers, warping them through digital/analog processes such as live scanner manipulation. Looking at them as a set, it’s nearly impossible to tell which works are high-fidelity recreations of back office printer mishaps, and which are born of Shelton’s own imagination. Collectively, the works in Snack Aisle are a mix of hard facts and fuzzy memories; of dreamy pop iconography and pragmatic market-driven aesthetics. They look great. * Miles Shelton (b. 1988, Brooklyn, New York) is an artist living in New York City. Shelton received his B.F.A. from SUNY Purchase College, and has previously exhibited at Leftfield Gallery, Los Osos, CA (2021), East Hampton Shed, East Hampton, NY (2020), La Mama Galleria, New York, NY, and Triumph Gallery, Moscow, Russia (2016). * Permanent Collection is a series of exhibits about things found, how they were found, and how what was found is shared. For more information, visit pcpvd.com