Biography
FAILE is a New York collective founded in 1999 by Patrick McNeil and Patrick Miller, art students at the Pratt Institute. The duo developed a collage aesthetic blending American pop culture with Eastern tradition, drawn from printed fragments, street silkscreens and hand-finished lithographs pasted on the walls of Brooklyn, the Lower East Side and Williamsburg.
Their visual grammar — warriors, superheroes, pin-ups, cut-up advertising slogans, Mexican and Japanese religious motifs — layers strata and eras to saturation point. The duo briefly signed alongside Aiko Nakagawa (Lady Aiko was a member of the collective until 2006) and was among the first to carry American street art into the auction room.
FAILE took over New York's Bowery Wall in 2011, painted an entire chapel in Portugal (FAILE Chapelle, Lisbon 2015), inlaid museum floors in Brooklyn and held solo exhibitions in Lisbon, Hong Kong and Tokyo. Their 104 N. 7th Street mosaic in Williamsburg marked a step into large-scale ceramic work.
Their visual grammar — warriors, superheroes, pin-ups, cut-up advertising slogans, Mexican and Japanese religious motifs — layers strata and eras to saturation point. The duo briefly signed alongside Aiko Nakagawa (Lady Aiko was a member of the collective until 2006) and was among the first to carry American street art into the auction room.
FAILE took over New York's Bowery Wall in 2011, painted an entire chapel in Portugal (FAILE Chapelle, Lisbon 2015), inlaid museum floors in Brooklyn and held solo exhibitions in Lisbon, Hong Kong and Tokyo. Their 104 N. 7th Street mosaic in Williamsburg marked a step into large-scale ceramic work.
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