Faile 'Hidden Worlds Come To Life' Print Available

Artist: Faile
Title: Hidden Worlds Come To Life
Medium: Giclee Print
Size: 24 x 28 Inches
Edition: 250
Price: $285

 

FAILE is a Brooklyn-based U.S. art collective founded in 1999 by Patrick McNeil (b. 1975, Edmonton, Canada) and Patrick Miller (b. 1976, Minneapolis, U.S.). The duo met as teenagers in Arizona, later reuniting in New York to create a multimedia practice that fuses street art tactics with fine art finish. Their name is an anagram of their first project, “A Life,” signalling rebirth through image making.

Working across painting, print, sculpture, mosaic and interactive installation, FAILE remixes pop culture detritus comic books, pulp ads, quilting patterns, religious icons into saturated collage compositions. Stencils and wheat paste remain core tools, yet recent works expand into hand-carved wood, glazed ceramic and even fully functioning arcade machines. Recurring emblems such as the Challenger shuttle, distressed comic heroines and the year “1986” serve as personal signatures and collective memory triggers, inviting viewers to decode layered references to consumerism, faith and urban anxiety.

Major institutional moments include a 240-square-foot mural on London’s Tate Modern in 2008 and the 2015 Brooklyn Museum exhibition Savage/Sacred Young Minds, where the collective installed Temple, a life-size ruin of iron and painted ceramic, alongside Deluxx Fluxx, a playable punk arcade co-built with artist Bäst (RIP). Through these immersive environments FAILE blurs the line between viewer and participant, high culture and street culture, celebrating the democratic potential of art in shared space. Today McNeil and Miller continue to produce limited screen prints, large murals and collaborative projects that travel worldwide, affirming their belief that images should live everywhere from alley walls to museum façades and that meaning emerges through constant visual dialogue with the city.