Sunday, April 21, 2013
Monday, April 15, 2013
Saturday, March 9, 2013
FOUNTAIN ART FAIR NYC - CONVERGE GALLERY
Installation of my collage works on view at The Fountain Art Fair with Converge Gallery.
[Top: HIV NEGATIVE, THE END OF THE WORLD, TRAP SOURIS, THE END OF THE WORLD, AGAIN, VARIOUS FRAMED COLLAGES, MONA, THE BOTTLE].
The Fountain Art Fair: 8 March - 10 March, 2013. Address:
68 Lexington Avenue at 25th Street, NYC, New York.
Click the image to enlarge.
http://www.fountainartfair.com/exhibitors/converge-gallery/
For the full catalog of my works with Converge Gallery click here.
Thursday, March 7, 2013
THE END OF THE WORLD in New York City at The Fountain Art Fair - Converge Gallery
THE END OF THE WORLD, COLLAGE ON CANVAS, 50 x 50 CM. 2008. CLICK IMAGE FOR LARGER VIEW.
From March 8 - 10, my work will be on view at The Fountain Art Fair with Converge Gallery. Among the works exhibited will be The End Of The World, a 50 x 50 cm 2008 collage work that has been exhibited widely in the US and London (Keep Calm Gallery).
The Fountain Art Fair: 8 March - 10 March 2013
68 Lexington Avenue at 25th Street, NYC, NY
Opening Reception: Friday 8 March, 7 PM
Gallery and Fair Info: http://www.fountainartfair.com/exhibitors/converge-gallery/
Saturday, March 2, 2013
Friday, March 1, 2013
A Perfect Friend Censored at The Big Picture, Denver
Curated by photographer Mark Sink, The Big Picture, a Denver, Colorado city-wide art event (with sister cities throughout the world), brings together artists in a large format off and on-the-wall exhibition. Works are displayed throughout Denver on city walls (using wheat paste) and in dedicated venues. But apparently some of the works went a bit too far – pornographically speaking.
My work, based upon a collage from the series A Perfect Friend, is currently installed at The Buffalo Exchange and is "censored" – the private bits have been covered with a blue patch. To be honest, I'm not sure what to think about my work being censored. I suppose this is a far cry from Robert Mapplethorpe's ru- in with the censors at the Corcoran and the NEA. (See that history here). What have we learned from censorship? Mostly that it draws people's attention to the work and not away from it. (Original piece is here):Sink apparently censored the work himself! Asked about the blue patch, curator Mark Sink, smiled and said nothing. (Mark Sink's website).
Then a day later this note from Mark Sink: "I need to explain... sorry you probably don't know iI was thrown off FaceBook twice, and one more time and I am out. I run a big part of my life on FB – sadly – (event announcements) The Big Picture and The Month of Photography and Sink Photography. If they they shut me down a marketing arm would be cut off."
Well, hmm. Several observers have noted that the blue patch actually draws attention to the works' slight pornographic nature.
See more from The Big Picture here.
A single print of this work and others from the series A Perfect Friend are available from Converge Gallery, Williamsport, Pennsylvania. These prints were featured at the exhibition After The Flood in 2012 in Williamsport. There are only a few prints remaining; the edition was set at three but only one print was made of each of 36 images. Contact the gallery if you're interested: Converge.
The prints were produced by Gary Day at the University of Omaha, Nebraska fine arts printing lab. The prints are about 80 x 60 cm each and were made using a high end Epson digital printer on fine Arches paper. Each of the prints are signed, numbered (1/3) and dated 2003.
MADNESS: My work will be featured at The Madness of Collage at The Next Gallery also in Denver, opening 8 March. My works on paper in the Madness exhibition are viewable here.
Sunday, February 17, 2013
March Madness of Collage : Next Gallery, Denver
IMAGE: G&C SWAN SONG, 2011.
The Madness of Collage, a large group show of collage artists across the planet will open at The Next Gallery in Denver Colorado on 8 March 2013. I was invited by the curators and jurors, Vernonica Reeves and Peter Strange Yumi to participate. My work was first exhibited in Denver in 2006 when I filled The Capsule Gallery, directed by Laurie Lynnxe Murphy with more than 1000 collage works in a show entitled Spelling With Scissors. The wall to wall to wall to floor to ceiling exhibition was the gallery's swan song and it soon after changed hands. See a little YouTube video of me dancing in the gallery space.
I originally sent in 7 of my God & Country works on paper – a series I exhibited here in Paris in 2011 at Storie in Montparnasse, but fearing after nearly a month that they were lost in the US and French postal systems, I sent in an additional 7 works. The moment the second package was mailed the first arrived (of course!). In total 14 works on paper will be on view in the exhibition.
The Next Gallery, 3659 Navajo Street,
Denver, Colorado 80211
Exhibition Dates: March 8 - 25, 2013
Reception: Friday, March 8, 6 pm - 10 pm
Visit The Next Gallery online.
Some 14 of my works on paper will be exhibited and available. Here are the collage works, each on paper and each from 2011. If you are interested in any of these works, please contact Veronica at Next Gallery.
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
MONDIAL CAFARD
My Mondial Cafard, 20th century collage book, on view at Papyri, Emily Harvey Foundation, Venice, Italy. Below, PIU, 2005, gouache on board, gift to Emily Harvey, at the same exhibition. Installation view.
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
CHAT
Lose your cat? Lose your cat in France?
Chat Perdu, my most recent print, measures 30 x 40 cm, and is signed and dated on fine art paper.
Only 5/11 available: 75€.
Enquiries: Chat Perdu.
Available in Paris at Storie (75104).
Tuesday, November 6, 2012
TODAY IS TOMORROW - PARIS DECEMBER 2012
TODAY IS TOMORROW, an exhibition of collages and astuces at La Belle Hortense, 31 Rue Vielle Du Temple, 750014 Paris. Exhibition throughout the month of December 2012 and thru 4 January 2013.
Click image to enlarge.
The good news is that the entire exhibition was sold – 15 pieces in all except for the Viagra bottle (the astuces).
Signed A3-sized posters are always available. If you would like a signed poster, please write here.
If you would like to print out a high resolution PDF of this poster for your home or office, you will find the link here: Tomorrow PDF. If that doesn't work, write: Poster. I'll send you the file.
Below: Installation view.
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
SAATCHI 12 X TWELVE : Second Nature
Collage supreme Matthew Rose has been invited to participate in over 50 exhibitions worldwide. His work is featured in three essential books on the medium and is in lots of public and private collections – and could now be in yours too! – Rebecca Wilson, Director, Saatchi Gallery London.
Monday, October 22, 2012
TODAY IS TOMORROW
Today Is Tomorrow, 2012, is the signature work for the Today Is Tomorrow exhibition opening 1 December 2012 at La Belle Hortense, 31 Rue Vielle du Temple 75004 Paris. In addition to this large piece, eight works on paper from the Fragment series, and four Haus collage on canvas works will also be included as well as a print.
Today Is Tomorrow measures 1.4 x 1 meters and is collage on masonite board.
Exhibition posters in high resolution PDFs will be posted here for download shortly.
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
A PERFECT FRIEND: UNCOUTH VERMOUTH
I produced a number of labels from my collage series A Perfect Friend for Bianca Miraglia's Uncouth Vermouth launch this autumn. Uncouth Vermouth is the self-described: Bad Ass Brooklyn Vermouthery.
The all natural (and excitingly delicious) Uncouth Vermouth is entirely "Made in Brooklyn." Please visit and enjoy Bianca's Uncouth Vermouth here.
And there's more: See the big New York Times article by natural wine maven Alice Feiring on American Vermouth and Bianca's Uncouth Vermouth.
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Monday, August 27, 2012
On The Road
My good friend, the writer and filmmaker Jody Jenkins recently took an artwork of mine painted on a metal garbage can cover and mounted it on a palm tree along the Atlantic coast of Georgia.
He writes: "We managed to get your piece up on a palm tree leading out to Tybee Island, just outside Savannah. It's one of my favorite stretches of road and thought it would be a good place to put it. And it blends in nicely with the green and all."
I have a certain number of these 1980s works produced from a silhouette of my niece when she was about a year old. A photograph was cut and the resulting shape was turned into a stencil. I made hundreds of these works. The first one was called "the fall" – the only one that is oil on canvas. The others are on a variety of materials from seat cushions to wood planks to glass to mosaic. They are all currently stored in the US.
Saturday, August 25, 2012
A Note About A Book About Death: A Book From Seattle
A Book About Death Seattle, curated by Kathleen McHugh and Almendra Sandoval, is now a book, which you can view and download as a PDF. You can also print it out. I produced an essay about the project, focusing in on the September 2009 New York exhibition at The Emily Harvey Foundation Gallery. The book was conceived of and designed by artist and art dealer Almendra Sandoval.
You can read that essay online here: A Note About A Book About Death.
The image above includes a photo of my work for the Seattle show, Talk To God, 2011. Photo of MR by Ari Rossner.
Saturday, August 11, 2012
Uncouth Vermouth : Bianca Miraglia at Underground
Uncouth Vermouth, Bianca Miraglia's natural vermouth debuts with my art labels at the Underground exhibition in Bushwick, Brooklyn on Friday August 10, 2012.
The art labels are borrowed from the A Perfect Friend works and the Immaculate Perception collage – prints of which are featured at Keep Calm Gallery. The prints from A Perfect Friend are on view at Converge Gallery in Williamsport, PA through August 25.Bianca Miraglia is a craft maker of vermouth and an expert on most things that are both drinkable and involve alcohol. She has often lectured on wine and spirits and naturally-made microbrew beers. She produced a special batch of her Uncouth Vermouth for Underground.
The collage works above include: Top – Television (2005), Lincoln (2007), The Hunt (2007), The Leaving (2007). All pieces are available from Converge Gallery. Sorry, there is no vermouth left from the evening but you might be able to get the bottles if you contact Bianca. More info about Underground and the gallery : Converge Gallery on FB.
Monday, July 23, 2012
Underground : Brooklyn August 10, 2012
Brooklyn, NY (August 10, 2012) - Converge Gallery and OfficeOps are pleased to announce their latest show Underground, a series of works by Matthew Rose, New York artists Rick Prol, Mike Cockrill and Jeffrey Allen Price, Kansas City, MO artist Tyler Coey, Vancouver, Canada artist Chris Brett, Chicago, IL artist Matthew Ryan Sharp, Oakland, CA artist Yosiell Lorenzo, Williamsport, PA artists Seth Goodman, Liz Parrish, Jeremiah Johnson, and Tim Miller, Northampton, MA artist Rick Beaupre and Dean Landry.
“As artists, we’re all constantly struggling to remain relevant, grow and evolve aesthetically. This is a process that is ongoing… the ‘cup’ will never be full. We will continue to do this and strive for growth until the day we are no more. There is always a ‘NEXT BIG THING’ and many of us do not fit this mold. – Matthew Ryan Sharp
The show, ‘Underground,’ is located in the Office Ops building, 57 Thames Street, Second Floor, Brooklyn, NY on August 10, 2012 from 5-9pm.
About the Artists
Matthew Rose is an American artist living and working in Paris, France. Known for his collage work and large scale installations of his work, as well as the global art project A Book About Death, he graduated Brown University with a degree in semiotics and linguistics (1981). His works are widely collected Europe and the US and are in both public and private collections.
Rick Prol is an ‘80s East Village icon whose work features cartoonish mayhem, death and suicide in dilapidated and decaying settings. He dabbles in a variety of media including – installations, paintings, sculpture and drawings. Much of the inspiration for Prol’s work stems from general childhood trauma. Cartoon expressionism was the language he wanted to use to convey his organic, personal experiences about life. He pulls from the urban realities of city life; brutality, authoritarian relationships, decay and destruction of the world around him, and more recently the Occupy Wall Street movement.
Mike Cockrill is a figurative painter who recently announced that he was having a “Modern Breakdown” and began posted a series of photos of himself in his studio working in a radically new direction. Girls and women with fragmented faces and 1950’s hairdos, and other almost tribal works in which the female is merged with the clown and stacked like totems. Story telling was gone. So were the shades of Norman Rockwell.
Jeffrey Allen Price is a multi-media and interdisciplinary installation artist. His work often alludes to natural processes such as growth and decay and ultimately comments on consumerism and materialistic culture. His work is often process-based and accumulative, humorous and playful. His works have been shown internationally and have been features in The New York Times and on the Food Network.
Tyler Coey is a Kansas City artist whose pieces combine the brush work and technique of traditional painting with contemporary subjects and icons. Attention was quickly directed to the local gallery scene, which in turn lead to national and international exhibitions.
Chris Brett is an artist from Vancouver, Canada who utilizes mixed media to create his works. His work is influenced by graffiti, children’s books, and cartoons. He uses rich colors and dark tones to express themes of love, lust, nature and heartbreak.
Matthew Ryan Sharp is a Chicago-based artist whose work is loaded with people we all know to some degree, sharing a colorful and lighthearted view into the American soul. His images can exist in opposition between the subject and statement, the irony painted on found object canvases. He offers truth in these images, a reflection of our own humanity laced with sarcasm and humor. He does it in brutal cartoonish fervor.
Yosiell Lorenzo is a California-based artist whose work appears to be whimsical and free-spirited but when you look deeper at his work you see sadness and longing. He utilizes many different mediums in his works including: sculpture, ink, graphite, digital vector art, and paints. Recently he was a featured artist in Pixar Times and has shown his work in Gallery1988.
Rick Beaupre is a Massachusetts surrealist artist whose pieces utilize acrylic and oil paints as well as pencil sketches, charcoals, casein (which is a quick drying, aqueous medium which uses a milk-based binding agent), and watercolors.
Seth Goodman began thinking about class and wealth disparities at an early age growing up in Ballston Spa, New York, the blue-collar ugly stepchild to the next town over, high-rolling Saratoga Springs. His works are reflective of what he witness while growing up and as shocking as they may seem to some, to others they are the people living in the trailer next door.
Liz Parrish is a Pennsylvania native who draws inspiration from her surroundings, the people she cares about, ill-tempered animals, and abandoned places. She utilizes acrylics, pen and ink on wood. Her works are whimsically grotesque and feature distorted yet almost adorable creatures of her own creation.
Jeremiah Johnson is a Pennsylvania native whose pieces include works on paper inspired by dreams, visions, experimentations, and life, handmade, original decorative prints and paintings, drawings, and works inspired by the current state of healthcare in America. His work is part of several public and private collections including The State Museum of Pennsylvania, Lock Haven University, Susquehanna Health, University of Chicago, Syracuse University, and Temple University.
Tim Miller is a Pennsylvania native whose pieces include 3-D works, which include ideas of love, life, loss, and luck permeate the work and in its finished state will form a seamless timeline where each piece holds its individual space in time while still being a part of an integrated whole. The 88 is an ongoing project that will consist of 88 different works with a common background and each piece measuring 8"x 8".
About OfficeOps
OfficeOps is an arts performance and production center. The second floor is the primary space for events, rehearsals, classes, and management of OfficeOps. It is laid out over a 15,000 square foot converted factory floor with space for any number of arts and culture related activities. Based on Brooklyn, NY, Office Ops is located at 57 Thames Street, Second Floor, Brooklyn, NY. For more information, please call: 718-418-2509, or visit: http://www.officeops.org/.
About Converge Gallery
Converge Gallery exhibits a variety of fine contemporary art (photography, paintings, mixed media, sculpture, installations and drawings). The gallery represents the talents of many artists local and non-native, emerging and established. Based in historic downtown Williamsport, PA, Converge Gallery is located at 140 West Fourth Street. Gallery hours are Wednesday-Friday 11am-7pm and Saturday 11am-5pm. For more information, please call: 570-435-7080, or visit: www.convergegallery.com or email:casey@convergegallery.com or john@convergegallery.com.
More information here: http://convergegallery.
Sunday, July 1, 2012
AFTER THE FLOOD INSTALLATION
After The Flood, installation shots at Converge Gallery, Williamsport, PA. Exhibition from 29 June - 25 August, 2012. For more information: Matthew Rose – After The Flood.
Thursday, June 21, 2012
After The Flood : June 29 - August 25, 2012
Collage works and terribly unusual objects: After The Flood at Converge Gallery, in Williamsport, Pennsylvania (also home of The Little League World Series).
The exhibition will bring together some 40 works on canvas and wood as well as altered objects in ceramic and plastic recovered after the great flood from way back when. In addition more than 30 large prints from the surrealist collage series A Perfect Friend will be on view.
OPENING RECEPTION: JUNE 29, 6 PM
EXHIBITION: JUNE 29 - AUGUST 25, 2012
140 West Fourth Street
Williamsport, PA 17701
TEL: 570.435.7080
CONVERGEGALLERY.COM
For more information and images, please contact Casey Cleghorn at the gallery.
To see more works from this and other collage and object series please visit the web site:
MATTHEW ROSE STUDIO
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Sunday, June 17, 2012
Double Buckets at Chemin des Arts Librarie in Paris
My double bucket sculpture now on view at The Chemin des Arts Librarie in Paris.
Address: 46 Rue Hermel, 75018 Paris, France. Tel: 01 42 58 67 60
Thursday, May 31, 2012
Second Nature (In Paris) At: Projective City
SECOND NATURE
14 juin – 1er juillet 2012 Vernissage – jeudi 14 juin – 19h
Ouverture: Mercredi – Dimanche / 12h – 18h
34 Rue Hélène Brion, Paris 75013
Métro: Ligne 14 – Bibliothèque (Click here for directions)
PROJECTIVE CITY WEB SITE
SECOND NATURE FACEBOOK EVENT PAGE
“Second Nature” suggests those things
that have become so habitual to us that they seem innate. Habits of
thought, action, or sensibility become so ingrained that we no longer
notice that they are not in fact natural but instead conditioned and
developed. Theodore Adorno famously developed the concept in his writing
about the culture industry, describing it as the pre-constructed social
and material space into which the individual must fit and conform.
Contemporary residents of the West grow up in a world of IKEA furniture,
concrete, television, cars and the 40-hour work week, and inevitably
take such things as totally natural. Perhaps more importantly, built
into this cultural environment are ideological constructions like race,
gender, class and sexual identity – this is the reason why the seemingly
innocuous culture industry is so crucial to investigate. Adorno’s key
point was not simply that we have become alienated from the natural
world of rocks, trees, animals and lightning storms inhabited by our
ancient ancestors, but that this world has largely been replaced by a
second, constructed world that we cannot help but accept as “natural.”
One consequence of this replacement is
that our perception of the original natural world is forever to be
viewed through the lens of second nature. Boundaries between the natural
and cultural are no longer coherent. Yet the artists in this exhibition
take this convoluted borderland as a generative space. The show brings
together work in photography, drawing, collage, sculpture and mixed
media, and presents a variety of aesthetic approaches. From quiet images
of natural spaces interacting with human artifacts, to careful
compositions that express deeply human issues by using imagery from the
natural world, to complex, fragmentary collages portraying the ubiquity
of second nature itself, these artists collectively explore the
complexity of issues that exists at the intersection of these two
worlds.
Originally from New York, Rose has lived and worked in Paris for over 20 years and has participated in over fifty exhibitions all over Europe and the US. He is perhaps best known as the curator and developer of the immense “A Book About Death,” a postcard-art show started in 2009 in New York which has since traveled to various international venues.
FRANÇAIS
La notion de “Seconde Nature” suggère
que les choses qui nous sont -devenues- si familières nous semblent
innées. Nos habitudes -de penser, d’agir, de ressentir- sont désormais
si ancrées que nous ne remarquons même plus qu’elles ne sont pas aussi
naturelles qu’elles pourraient le sembler. Elles sont, bien au
contraire, tout à fait conditionnées et formatées par un environnement
“culturel”. Théodore Adorno, à l’origine de ce concept -qui fait son
apparition dans ses écrits sur “l’industrie de la culture”-, le décrit
comme “l’espace social et matériel pré-construit dans lequel l’individu
doit s’intégrer et se conformer”.
Le monde occidental est aujourd’hui régi
par du mobilier suédois, des murs de béton préfabriqué, des centaines
de chaînes de télévision et des semaines de 35 heures, toutes ces
données qui sont aujourd’hui considérées comme tout à fait “naturelles”…
Et, qui, plus important encore, s’imposent dans cet environnement déjà
biaisé de conceptions idéologiques telles que race, genre, classe,
identité sexuelle, etc – faisant de l’industrie culturelle un élément
fondamental à explorer. Selon Adorno, l’être humain est aliéné par cet
environnement fait de pierres, d’arbres, d’animaux, de tonnerre…
d’éléments habités par les fantômes de ses ancêtres. Mais surtout, que
cet environnement premier, primal, a largement été remplacé par un
second : un monde construit qui est depuis, à son tour, assimilé comme
étant de l’ordre du “naturel”.
Conséquence directe de ce remplacement,
de cet amalgame : notre perception du monde naturel et originel est à
jamais accessible depuis le filtre de l’objectif de cette “seconde
nature”. Les frontières entre naturel et culturel ne sont désormais plus
définies. Les artistes présentés abordent cette délimitation instable
et nébuleuse comme un espace générateur de créativité. L’exposition
rassemble une variété d’approches esthétiques de cette notion de
“Seconde nature” : photographies, dessins, collages, sculptures et
techniques mixtes. Des images paisibles d’espaces naturels en
interaction avec des artefacts de l’homme, aux compositions soignées en
opposition/en réponse à des problématiques profondément humaines en
passant par une illustration du monde naturel, ou encore par, de
complexes collages dépeignant l’omniprésence de la seconde nature
elle-même… L’ensemble des artistes explore la complexité des questions
qui résultent de la confrontation de ces deux mondes : nature et
culture.
Artistes: Géraud Soulhiol, Benoît Pype, Marc Gourmelon, Nesta Mayo, Nesta Mayo, Matthew Rose
Plus d'infos: SECOND NATURE
Matthew Rose: Les collages de Matthew Rose rassemblent des images de toutes sortes pour former des tapisseries richement texturées et ouvertes aux possibles. Festival d’une imagerie empruntant aux classiques des années 50 et à la culture populaire des années 60, son travail reflète une obsession contemporaine et nostalgique, créant ainsi de complexes symboles issus de la culture elle-même. Le monde naturel est largement représenté à travers des extraits d’illustrations de magazines. Le spectateur est rapidement convié à se rendre compte de l’inéluctabilité et de l’ascendant pris par la culture sur la nature. Si le résultat semble être une cacophonie de formes symboliques, il est, au contraire, une série de mélodies entrelacées qui invitent à penser que toute évasion est impossible, et finalement peut-être fort peu judicieuse ou nécessaire. Originaire de New York, Matthew Rose vit et travaille à Paris depuis plus de 20 ans. Il a participé à plus de cinquante expositions en Europe et aux États-Unis. Matthew Rose est également connu pour ses activités en tant que conservateur et promoteur du projet «A Book about Death » -une exposition de cartes postales d’art, initiée en 2009 à New York et qui a depuis voyagé dans le monde entier. – Benjamin Evans, curator, Projective City.
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
In London - More Than Words: Installation View
More Than Words, exhibition at jaggedart, 28A Devonshire Street, London. From May 16 - June 16, 2012. Top: Paintings (1999), silkscreen edition of 10. (7 works in all plus post card). Middle: America, collage series, 2010. 12 works in all. Bottom: LAIT, 1993. Unique piece.
Contact the gallery.
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
LAIT in LONDON
LAIT, a collage on bottle assemblage work from 1993, will be part of MORE THAN WORDS at JAGGEDART in London. In addition, a series of collage works on paper from the series America as well as the silkscreened edition text works PAINTINGS will be on view.
The exhibition brings together eight artists (Sara J. Beazley, Jeremy May, Maria Noel, Francisco Prieto, Priscilla Purcell, Patricia Swannell, Thurle Wright, Matthew Rose) working with text, script, fonts, writing, printing and language opening on 16 May 2012, with a private view on 23 May. The exhibition runs through 16 June 2012.
Jaggedart 28A Devonshire Street
London W1G 6PS England UK
Website: http://jaggedart.com/
Telephone : + 44 (0)20 7486 7374
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