Eamon King, born in 2002 in Gainesville, Florida, is a Senior studying for his BFA at St. John’s University. King currently works and lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Eamon King’s work highlights the found action and understanding behind a given object or surface, primarily focusing on those synonymous with cryptic construction paint markings that indicate what can not be seen behind a surface and applying their ambiguity in mark and significance to familiar objects and actions in any given surrounding. The physicality of these surfaces and adjacent objects are paired with a metaphysical timeline of choices and actions that play the role of knowledge, either by the object or imposed upon itself. Through the understanding, exploration and mimicry of these extracted found actions with similar and alternative mediums such as latex paint, metal, aerosol based paint and other adjacent objects, there is more to offer than just the present interpretation and knowledge of what the orange obscure but also distinguished mark on the floor stands for. A paint marking that indicates an object through a code such as C1-03, a frequent construction code, has little significance to the populus when viewed on a decaying beige wall, however when placed in a space of prestigiousness and cleanliness, a new weaponization of the work emerges by reclaiming the spatial integrity of both the action and the space it resides in. The found action is now a problem of locating a mean between knowledge and ignorance once placed on or within a separate surface, resulting in opinion. In undermining the initial purpose of these industrial markings and objects along with the respective action, he analyzes their transitory state of insignificance to align his personal understanding of familiarity in objectivity of the everyday setting.