Machine Memory Brain features gestural and energetic works on canvas that embrace the visual languages of drawing as they absorb fragments and ephemera from the artist’s daily life. At the core of Granade’s practice he charismatically evokes complexities in the studio, creating fields of paradoxical legibility and opacity—transcribing found forms into rhythmic meditations on existentialism brimming with characters, shapes, and symbols. Granade’s engagement with abstraction through time has been decidedly self-referential—abstract painting swallowing its own tail—and has more recently become Granade’s means of personal expression—a catch-all for stray thoughts, notes to self, appointments, and biblio- and biographical footnotes. Like the paintings in the Caves of Lascaux and the graffiti carved into the Temple of Poseidon, Granade explores an array of strategies to mark time, annotate, layer, echo, and prove his own existence.
