LIKE ME AS YOU DO : SCANDINAVIAN COLLAGE MUSEUM

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WHAT, 2009.  Collage on board (Mailed).  Included in the show.
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Lover's Discourse, 2016

Lover's Discourse, 2016.  Part of a series of collage works on book covers. This piece is a riff off of John Stezaker's collage approach of inserting a landscape into the gaping maws of two lovers.  My take is to inject a 1930s photogram of caffeine molecules into that intimate space.  

See more book cover collages and other works on the instagram feed:  Matthew Rose Instagram.

SECOND HAND CLOCK : 0VERDRIVE l MODE D'EMPLOI - EXHIBITION JANUARY 2016 PARIS

Surreal Trips, Talking With God, Blue Deers and Visit to the 1950s : New & Old Works on Instagrammy

A wide range of new and older works in a cool format is now up and running on Instagram. Check out the show. Some works available, others in collections in the US and Europe.  Follow if you like, win prizes.

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You Me, silkscreen on aches paper, 2010

Only 4 left: In Paris: https://www.facebook.com/laprunelledemesyeuxparis?fref=ts

THE PAGES (2006 - 2013) : PERMANENT COLLECTION NOBEL & HUG CABINET ZURICH, SWITZERLAND

The Pages, collage on board, 2006 - 2013; collection Nobel & Hug, Zürich, Switzerland.  Each work is approximately 21 x 29 cm, on board and was posted from Paris, France to the US. The series was first exhibited at Converge Gallery, Williamsport, PA for the 2013 exhibition The Letters. The works were recently framed and installed at the Nobel & Hug law offices in Zürich.  Photo, courtesy: "Annette and Peter Nobel Collection, Zurich.

The artists in the Nobel & Hug art collection include (among others) works by Robert Longo, Xie Xiaoze, Hans Krüsi, Warwara Fjodorowna Stepanowa, Pierre Baltensperger, Antoni Tàpies, César, Willem de Kooning, Mimmo Rotella, Alighiero Boetti, Gaston Chaissac, Raymond Hains, Andy Warhol and David Shirgley.

(Click here for The Letters Catalog).  Click the image to enlarge.

Pressure Washing: The Catalog. Full Exhibition Now Available / PDF : Hi-Res Images, Prices & Details & More

Panorama of Pressure Washing  : 6 March - 25 April 2015, Converge Gallery, Williamsport, PA.

Click the image above to enlarge and see the installed exhibition.

Or take a high resolution Virtual Tour of Pressure Washing.

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Write for full PDF catalog available now available: Contact - John @ Converge Gallery : or Matthew Rose Pressure Washing Catalog.

The Self Improvement Alphabet @ The Cornell Museum

 
The entire Self Improvement Alphabet on view at The Cornell Museum, Delray Beach, Florida (thru March 2015).   The 26 letters from Academy to Kidnapping to Marriage to Zero Hour. Photo: Jordan Wolf, courtesy, The Cornell Museum.

Contact: Self Improvement Alphabet if you are interested in purchasing the work, or want to see a particular letter up close.  More views, below. 

On Language: The Self Improvement Alphabet at The Cornell Museum, Delray Beach, Florida

This is a major collage work of mine and soon to be a limited edition book (2015).
 
The entire Self Improvement Alphabet is for sale. 

Contact: Self Improvement Alphabet and I will put you in contact with the right folks.

Immaculate Perception, Baby Blue, 2014: Print

Matthew Rose, Immaculate Perception, Baby Blue, 2014.  (210 mm × 280 mm or 8.27 in × 11.02 in). Edition number, price and availability to be announced. Printed on acid free high-quality cotton rag fine art paper.  Please contact for all details: IP BABY BLUE.

MojaRijeka : 1000 Queens / Tisuću Kraljica

Interview on One Thousand Queens at Atelier, Rijeka, Croatia. Full text, videos and photographs : http://www.mojarijeka.hr/kultura/zatvorena-izlozba-matthewa-rosea/

One Thousand Queens Named Marcel

Part of the installation of One Thousand Queens, Rijeka, Croatia, October 2014, One Thousand Queens Named Marcel was made in Croatia for the exhibition.  Article on the exhibition from Novilist.

One Thousands Queens : Rijeka, Croatia

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LOST FOR WORDS exhibition at The BROOKLYN : EXTENDED THRU 30 NOVEMBER 2014

   

Installation shots ...   Lost For Words, an exhibition of Collages, Objets # Astuces.  The BRKLYN ... 58 Rue Quincampoix 75004 Paris. Through the November 30 2014.  If you would like a checklist of the exhibition with prices (PDF), high resolution images, sizes of works and other details, please contact: Lost For Words.

Photo: © Canadian Dan 2014 All Rights Reserved, Man.

Poster and details : Lost For Words / Matthew Rose.

Uncouth Vermouth: Perfect Friends at The Mason Jar

Above: Five of more than a half dozen seasonal flavors of Uncouth Vermouth, with my collage works serving up full on branding for the Brooklyn-based vermouth maker Bianca Miraglia.  New (not pictured) is Wildflower and over the next few weeks a hopped up vermouth that smacks of IPA!

More than 20 collage works in large format prints are on view at Uncouth Vermouth's new tasting room in Red Hook, Bklyn.  Interested in the prints? Connect: Uncouth Vermouth.  See them, buy them, enjoy some vermouth!

An article on our collaboration appeared in The Mason Jar.  Read the article on  a perfect collaboration: The Mason Jar - Seasonality to Surrealism.

Metamorphic : Converge Gallery 11 July - 2 August 2014

Three works as part of Metamorphic, from left to right : Butter, Love, Milk all collage on canvas, 2009.  Enquires: Converge Gallery.

From Ordinary To Extraordinary: Paper As Art at The Cornell Museum of Art - 23 May - 24 Aug 2014

Curated by Melanie Johanson, From Ordinary To Extraordinary: Paper As Art at The Cornell Museum of Art & American Culture - 23 May - 24 Aug 2014 at the Delray Beach Center for the Arts.  Link to exhibition and info: Cornell Museum.  

This premiere exhibit features approximately 75 exquisite works by 16 artists, who have been featured in galleries around the world. The artists in the show all use paper in one form or another to unfold a visual and narrative that is particular, enticing and extremely rare in these days of digital everything.  Cutting, scratching, painting, sewing, wrapping and gluing all come together in what is clearly a well imagined exhibition.

Four works of mine are on view at the Cornell Museum in Delray Beach: Moneygram (2013), Second Nature (2009, 12:05 (2003) and Letters Home (2013).  My work here is represented by Converge Gallery of Williamsport, PA.

Several of the pieces were on view at my wall to wall exhibition, The Letters in the summer of 2013.  A full catalog (PDF) is available here: The Letters.

These works each have a story that might prove interesting.  Here is a  little bit about each:

Left: Letters Home; right, Second Nature, exhibition view, Cornell Museum, Delray Beach, FL

 1. MONEY GRAM: From  The Letters exhibition in 2013, "Money Gram" is a sewn together "collage" of currencies real and antique, a global note on bank notes that takes a hint from Warhol's dollar signs but conceptually calculates not only the many hands in the art game, but the international tenor of the market place. The "gram" rubber stamped and then monogrammed onto the work indicates (beyond the pun) that it was mailed (or wired). Money in the mail from the world over. Calculating the face and current value of the currencies is part of the work as the values change; money is a changing asset, and sometimes valuable sometimes worthless. 

2. SECOND NATURE: A classic collage work that brings together favorite subjects : women playing at being women, wearing masks and dancing to the male gaze. The elements of "Second Nature" all come from vintage 1950s Swiss lifestyle weeklies the artist bought at a massive street fair in Geneva. 

3. 12:05. I've always been attracted to 1930s surrealism and this piece combines a few elements into a simple gesture that talks about time and timelessness, motion and stillness. There's a dash of de Chirico in here and while the boat is not the Titanic, it might as well be.  The collage has been featured in a half dozen magazines and books. 

 

Right: 12:05, collage on board, exhibition view.

4. LETTERS HOME: This work consists of the envelopes of letters sent by a young French soldier (in 1948) from Algiers to his parents in Paris. I discovered them in an old warehouse junk store, bundled together and unloved and immediately I saw the piece unfold before my eyes for my The Letters exhibition: Letters Home. 

The letters reported his daily routine and were sent like clockwork over a period of two years. I was moved by their unconscious boredom. My guess is this was the first time he was away from home, but also serving the French army in a hot spot colony of North Africa. I created a grid of them and asked my local seamstress here in Paris, Madame Yann, if she would sew them together following my chalk drawing of a house. She did and even obliged me by signing the back of the work (in Chinese). 

All enquiries : John Yogodzinsky at Converge Gallery.   Press: Sun-Sentinel Article.

SO, Collage on Wood Construction, 2000

SO, collage on wood construction, 2000. With two swinging doors. 65 x 65 cm (not including the doors). Made for a wedding that went bust. How prescient.  Interested? Contact: SO.

Voisines, Collage on Canvas, 115 x 90 cm. 2013.

Q ET TU? See Queen Elizabeth during FIAC PARIS at The BROOKLYN. Exhibition on through FIAC and October 2014

See Queen Elizabeth during FIAC PARIS at The Brooklyn in PARIS. Above Q ET TU? 60 x 60 cm, collage on canvas, 2014.  The Brooklyn: 58 Rue Quincampoix 75004 Paris.  Around the corner from the Pompidou Center.   Contact: Q ET TU?