Joey Slaughter | Hatchback Tetris copy

Tinney Contemporary is proud to present Hatchback Tetris, a solo exhibition featuring new works by Joey Slaughter. The show runs from Saturday, August 23 through September 27, 2025. The opening reception will be on Saturday, September 13, from 2 to 9 PM.

Joey Slaughter’s wall-mounted works materialize the immaterial, translating ephemeral phenomena into physical form. Constructed from brightly painted, CNC-cut MDF components pieced together in interlocking arrangements, these assemblages oscillate between playful exuberance and meticulous control.

The title of the exhibition correlates to a distinct image—one familiar to all cross-country road-trippers, to art handlers, to minivan-touring-bands, and a slew of other various road dogs with a habit of packing too much cargo into their imminently practical, affordable-yet-stylish, mid-size SUVs.

In this body of work, Slaughter incorporates found materials like car mats, as well as painted grids that reveal the artist’s hand in contrast to the perfect, machine-cut curves of the MDF. Their chromatic intensity and compositional dynamism echo the design philosophy of the Memphis Group, while their abstract forms are reminiscent of graffiti and street art.

Central to Slaughter’s practice is an inquiry into processes of communication, translation, and transmission—the way information is transformed as it moves across systems. His works operate analogously to a waveform rendering sound visible, or to the synesthetic perception of music as color. In this sense, the works stage a negotiation between perception and materiality, opening up a space where the abstract and the embodied converge.

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