• Gavin Fahey
  • Priority Mail 2023
  • Devotional Objects 2021-22
  • American Myth 2021
  • Suburbs 2021
  • Consumption 2021
  • Political Signs 2021
  • Tabloids 2020
  • Trompe L'oeil 2019-20
  • Press/Interviews
  • About/CV/Contact
Gavin Fahey
Priority Mail 2023
Devotional Objects 2021-22
American Myth 2021
Suburbs 2021
Consumption 2021
Political Signs 2021
Tabloids 2020
Trompe L'oeil 2019-20
About/CV/Contact
Press/Interviews

The first two paintings, We Buy Gold and Buffet, allude to signs in a run-down strip mall.  These assaultive commands to consume pair word and image in a manner meant to evoke the nauseating violence of consumptive glut – an insatiable desire to tear out your fillings at the cash for gold broker or to order a viscera-laden burger.


Two other pieces, Do What You Love, Love What You Do and There’s no Place Like Home, mirror the sort of vapid platitudes one might find on Pinterest or Instagram.  These paintings represent a generic, disquieting emptiness which consumer goods, mindfulness, and trite aphorisms are unable to fill. 

We Buy Gold (2021), oil on canvas, 30”x24”
Private Collection
Buffet (2021), oil on canvas, 36”x48”  
There’s no place like home (2021), oil on canvas, 36”x36”
Do What You Love, Love What You Do (2021), oil on canvas, 40”x30”

The first two paintings, We Buy Gold and Buffet, allude to signs in a run-down strip mall.  These assaultive commands to consume pair word and image in a manner meant to evoke the nauseating violence of consumptive glut – an insatiable desire to tear out your fillings at the cash for gold broker or to order a viscera-laden burger.


Two other pieces, Do What You Love, Love What You Do and There’s no Place Like Home, mirror the sort of vapid platitudes one might find on Pinterest or Instagram.  These paintings represent a generic, disquieting emptiness which consumer goods, mindfulness, and trite aphorisms are unable to fill. 

We Buy Gold (2021), oil on canvas, 30”x24”
Private Collection
Buffet (2021), oil on canvas, 36”x48”  
There’s no place like home (2021), oil on canvas, 36”x36”
Do What You Love, Love What You Do (2021), oil on canvas, 40”x30”