Faile 'Across The Cosmos' Lavender Prints Available

Artist: FAILE
Title: Across The Cosmos (Lavender)
Medium: Acrylic on Screen Print
Size: 17 x 25 Inches
Edition: 50
Price: $295

Faile 'Across The Cosmos' Burgundy Prints Available

Artist: FAILE
Title: Across The Cosmos (Burgundy)
Medium: Acrylic on Screen Print
Size: 17 x 25 Inches
Edition: 50
Price: $295

FAILE 'Star Spangled Shadows Linen' Print Available

Artist: FAILE
Title: Star Spangled Shadows Linen
Medium: Multi Color Screen Print
Size: 66 x 46 cm
Edition: OPEN
Prices: €200

   

FAILE is the artistic collaboration between Brooklyn based artists Patrick McNeil and Patrick Miller. Originating in 1999, the duo began creating art on the streets of New York City, quickly earning recognition for their innovative use of stencil printing and their distinctive visual language that blends pop culture, graphic design, and comic books with elements of history and religion. Their work often incorporates fragmented imagery and text, creating dense, collage-like compositions on a variety of mediums, including canvas, wood, and metal.

Over the past two decades, FAILE has evolved from street artists into internationally acclaimed contemporary artists. They have transitioned seamlessly from creating wheat-pasted posters and large-scale murals to exhibiting intricate, hand-painted canvases and sculptural installations in prominent galleries and museums worldwide. Their projects frequently explore themes of advertising, consumerism, and urban decay, using bright colors and bold lines to engage viewers.

Key works include Temple, a large scale installation first presented in London's Trafalgar Square that reimagined a classical ruin as a temple of commerce. Another significant piece, the FAILE & BAST Deluxx Fluxx Arcade, was a functional arcade featuring custom designed video games and pinball machines. This project has been installed in various global locations, including Art Basel Miami.

FAILE's art is a dynamic interplay of high and low culture, challenging traditional notions of authorship and originality through a shared, iterative process. Their work continues to be highly sought after and influential in the urban and contemporary art scenes.

Faile 'Holiday Block And Roll' Wood Blocks Available

Artist: Faile
Title: Holiday Block And Roll
Medium: Acrylic, Aerosol and Screen Print On Wood Blocks
Size: (8) 2 x 2 x 2 Inches Each
Edition: 125
Price: $200

 

FAILE is the Brooklyn-based artistic collaboration between Patrick McNeil (b. 1975, Edmonton, Canada) and Patrick Miller (b. 1976, Minneapolis, USA), known for its wide-ranging multimedia practice that blurs the lines between "high" and "low" culture. The name FAILE is an anagram of their original project, "A Life," and reflects the duo's philosophy of transformation. Since their inception in 1999, FAILE has established itself as a significant force in contemporary art, recognized as pioneers in the global street art movement.

Their signature style is a fragmented form of appropriation and collage, constructed from found imagery and characterized by bold graphics, vibrant colors, and dynamic typography. FAILE's work draws heavily from American pop culture, advertising, comic books, and pulp magazines, blending these elements into visually complex narratives.

While painting and printmaking remain central to their approach, the artists have adapted their style to a vast array of materials and techniques, including large-scale murals, screenprints, sculptures, and ambitious interactive installations. Notable projects include large-scale "Prayer Wheels" in Times Square and an urban temple in Portugal, as well as the interactive "Deluxx Fluxx" arcade, which features customized video games and pinball machines.

FAILE's art is widely exhibited in galleries and museums worldwide, including the Brooklyn Museum and the Tate Modern, and their pieces command a wide range at auction. Through their diverse output, FAILE continues to explore themes of duality, consumerism, and the ephemeral nature of urban art, inviting audience participation and challenging conventional artistic boundaries.

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.

Faile 'Wonder Star' + 'Anarchy Melody' Originals Available

Artist: Faile
Title: Wonder Star + Anarchy Melody
Medium: Acrylic on Paper + Acrylic And Aerosol on Paper
Size: 18 x 26 Inches Each
Edition: Originals
Prices: €3,200 Each

*by far, my favorite Faile pieces from the Faile Straat Museum show.

Faile 'Nowhere Is Now Here' Print Available

Artist: Faile
Title: Nowhere Is Now Here
Medium: Giclee Print
Size: 12 x 16 Inches
Edition: 200
Prices: $200

Faile 'Et Jai Retenu Mon Souffle Paris' Release Details

Artist: Faile
Title: Et Jai Retenu Mon Souffle Paris
Medium: Deckled Giclee Print
Size: 13.5 x 22.5 Inches
Edition: 325
Price: $250

*available at 12pm EST on Thursday November 21st, 2024

Faile 'Container Show' Poster Available

Artist: Faile
Title: Container Show Poster
Medium: Offset Print
Size: 18 x 24 Inches
Edition: OPEN
Price: $70

*available at 12pm EST on Thursday November 21st, 2024

Faile 'NY Is Our Bag: Bunny Boy' Print Available

 

Artist: Faile
Title: NY Is Our Bag: Bunny Boy
Medium: Offset Print
Size: 20 x 28 Inches
Edition: OPEN
Price: $135

*available at 12pm EST on Thursday November 21st, 2024