RejectEffect is a Detroit, MI based art collective that was formed in 2006, by Maria Prainito and Timothy Gaewsky. We met while in the MFA program at Vermont College and soon realized we shared similar ideas, interests and artistic pursuits. We also shared an awareness of being outsiders; producing work we thought was engaging but overlooked or ignored by those who were involved in the local and wider art communities. As such, we felt RejectEffect was an appropriate pseudonym to signify our embracement of participating on the periphery of the art community. RejectEffect also represents the development of our collaborative efforts and our desire to produce work that engages all possibilities of human enjoyment. Whether it is painting, photography or public interventions our practice is to create work that is humorous, disturbing and challenging for both us and the viewer. We aspire to create work that explicitly presents thoughts that sit on the palette of one’s tongue waiting to be spoken or swallowed.

"Life is very much about rule-breaking, about confrontation. Otherwise history would just stand still. Someone has to come along and break the rules and try, for whatever reason, to go about things in a different way. Even if it is a simple sense of adventure, a sense of exploration. You explore concepts and things that interest you, but are also exploring inside of yourself"

-Ed Paschke

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