About

Coming from a traditional fine art background, Austin Furtak-Cole uses deceptively simple forms, vibrant colors and sometimes disorienting perspective to create absurd or humorous compositions. Interested in our exaggerated memory of reality, how some details stand out, while other details become romanticized or aggrandized, Furtak-Cole, much like Carroll Dunham, uses color and composition to push his work to that tenuous line between abstraction and figuration, where truth and fiction might intersect.

In Making Moves, Furtak-Cole’s new paintings focus solely on the human form as a study in …