On Beauty: The Denver Collage Club Launches at The Robert Anderson Gallery : 3 April - 30 May, 2015

The Robert Anderson Gallery and The Denver Collage Club opens the Month of Photography with a large and powerful exhibition of collage works from some 20 artists from Denver, the US and Europe. The opening begins at  5 pm, Friday, April 3, 2015. The exhibition runs through May 30, 2015.

Launched by Denver-based photographer Mark Sink and artist Mario Zoots, The Denver Collage Club is an international group of artists exploring a wide variety ideas on contemporary collage. Beauty is the theme of the Anderson Gallery exhibition. 

In this inaugural Denver Collage Club exhibition, the Robert Anderson Gallery is proud to present a diverse body of collage works that promise to intrigue, provoke and enchant. The evocative images in this exhibition carry on the rich tradition of unique and creative art making.

Collage artists began to appear after World War I. Using a wide range materials – often printed in newspapers, magazines, or even as wall paper – artists reassembled these fragments to create visually dynamic and compelling images. Early collage works often related to political or social issues. Some of the earliest innovators were Picasso, Braque, Kurt Schwitters, Man Ray, Raoul Haussmann, Max Ernst, Hannah Hoch, Joseph Cornell, Ray Johnson, Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns among many others; collage is a mainstay of contemporary art and continues to reinvent itself.

[Image left: Matthew Rose, Tale of the Virgin, 2010, 9 x 12 inches; collage and gouache on paper.]

Artists exhibiting with The Denver Collage Club: Adam Milner, Alexander Rodchenko, Colin Ward, David H. Tippits, Freddie Max Levenson, Gary Emrich, Herbert Bayer, Janice McDonald, Jeromie Dorrance, Jerry Uelsmann,  Kyle Huninghake, Laura Shill, Libby Barbee, Mado Reznik, Mario Zoots, Mark Sink, Matthew Rose, Melissa Lynn, Paula Gillen, Samuel Mata, Steve Wilson, Susan Goldstein, Taylor Balkissoon, and Travis Hetman.

Robert Anderson Gallery  
The Denver Collage Club  April 3- May 30, 2015.
2426 East Third Avenue Denver Colorado 80206   
Tel: 303-388-1332 W: Robert Anderson Gallery  

Pop Up / Fuck Off : London Saturday 28 March 2015

Tuscany, 2005 (Italian Landscape). Pop Up Fuck Off at Broadway Studios Tooting High Street, London... Show on Saturday 28 March 2005. More details and close up of the work: Pop Up / Fuck Off Broadway Studios London — with India Roper-Evans, Esther van der Hoeven and Samuel Brzeski.

THE DENVER COLLAGE CLUB APRIL 3 - MAY 30 2015: Robert Anderson Gallery Denver, Colorado

SOFT FIX, 2015 - AMERICAN PEEP SHOW CRUCIFIX / PRESSURE WASHING : CONVERGE GALLERY

SOFT FIX, 2015 is a soft core porn assemblage work in the American Peep Show booth that is part of the Pressure Washing exhibition at Converge Gallery.  The crucifix is made from prostitutes' calling cards, and arranged in a grid to form a crucifix.

Reactions to the work thus far have ranged from horrified to mystified to gorgeous to outrageous, John Yogodzinksi, Converge Gallery director told me.  My idea here is to literally cross up the male gaze with paid liberation, and examine the contradictions of desire, belief, consumer life and private spiritual life.

For more information: Converge Gallery.

Pressure Washing @ Converge Gallery - The Very Sexy Review : Williamsport Sun-Gazette 12 March 2015

POP UP FUCK OFF MASSIVE GROUP SHOW @ BROADWAY STUDIOS LONDON SATURDAY 28 MARCH 2015

Pop Up Fuck Off, organized by India Roper-Evans and Samuel Brzeksi at Broadway Studios 28 Tooting High Street SW17 ORG in LONDON runs for one day only: 28 March 2015.

The exhibition opens at 3 PM and will run quite late with musical performances and other art works taking us into the evening.

All the details on FaceBook are here: Pop Up Fuck Off.

Artists include:

Elod Beregszaszi, Richard Leppard, Matthew Rose, India Roper-Evans
Flora Deborah, Sophia Simensky
Mita Solanky, Samuel Brzeski, Cecily Bates, Rodrigo Souto
Eden Lazaness, Helena Mae Brzeski, Miriam Gould, Mary Jones, Amelia Prett, Thomas Wells, Millie Easton, Tom Estes, Cheryl Simmons, Sarah Peace, Sarah Miah, Be Inma Berrocal, Carmen Viñuela, Ele de Luis, Simone Strifele, Sean Worrall, Kathryn Madge, Soundboxed Collective, Daniel P Cunningham, Jamie Misselbrook, Elaine Johnson Lauren Cooper Hayley Don Hill, Xiaoqiao Li, Minami Wrigley, Bob Brown, Luke Sebastian Wilde, Robert Marney Arts, Rob Jones, Phillip Hawkey, Nalini Thapen, Sisters From Another Mister, Milda Lembertaite, Emma Barford, Graham Martin, Andrew Stys, Timothy Holt, Aerial Sparks, Julia Maddison, Glenn Fitzy Fitzpatrick, Alejandro Tamagno, Sedicente Feccia, Minesweeper Collective, Desdemona Varon, Gzillion Artist, Vanya Balogh, Susana Sanroman, Silvia Cruz Del Alamo, Vanja Karas, Yumi Yoshinaga,  Sinéid Codd, Russell Hill, Caroline Derveaux-Berté and many more...

My text work, Tuscany, 2005, will be included (God willing the Postal Service delivers them)... The pieces, a triptych, are essentially Bird, Cloud, Sky (in Italian).  Each canvas is 21.0 x 29.7cm, and is gouache on canvas. If you are interested in these works, please contact here: TUSCANY.

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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.

Download the exhibition view.

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

Got Pussy? Secretary & Applied Sciences Pussy Prints: Pressure Washing @ Converge Gallery (March - April 2015)

Secretary and Applied Sciences, two new pussy prints, 2015, part of Pressure Washing at Converge Gallery.  So, if you lost your pussy or your cat or both...

Converge Gallery and Matthew Rose are excited to announce the limited release of these two prints "Secretary" & "Applied Sciences." These 18" x 24" signed prints are beautifully reproduced with archival inks on velvet rag paper. Each sells for $150 unframed, or $250 for the pair.   

Giving #pussyriot a run for the ruble.

Contact Converge Gallery Director : John Yogodzinski .... more here: http://convergegallery.com/

Pressure Washing: An Indiscreet But Satisfying Rapture - Exhibition By Matthew Rose : 6 March - 25 April 2015

Matthew Rose Pressure Washing Poster Download (PDF).  

WILLIAMSPORT, PA – Converge Gallery is pleased to present Matthew Rose’s small and intimate exhibition of sometimes erotic, sometimes obscene, indecent, titillating, arousing, risqué, adult works of art rife with bawdy double-entendres and soft-core innuendo. This is the Paris-based American artist’s third solo exhibition at Converge Gallery.

These 100 hand-cut and painted collage works on board and canvas skew towards the suggestive with splashes of surrealist and pop sensibilities.  Along with additional pieces in sealed plastic arranged triple-x magazine-style in a private “American Peep Show” viewing booth, “Pressure Washing” provides a kind of lexica pornographica, a modest pictorial thesaurus of contemporary pleasure. 

Curated by Converge Gallery director, John Yogodzinski, these works target “almost every manner of sexual adventure with a sophistication and deep sense of humor that takes no prisoners,” says Yogodzinski.  “These works offer rewards that will leave viewers and collectors of art and erotica in stitches and possibly chains. Matthew Rose proves again he is one of our leading collage workers, taking the aesthetic of cut and paste, and pushing past the gates armed with fleshy poetry.” 

Kristen Hill, Converge Gallery, assistant director, agrees: “No philistine, Rose produces x-rated koan-like gems with a knowing virtuosity,” she says. “He’s a two-fisted culture warrior outfitted with sharp scissors, hot glue and a quick pair of hands to rifle through the Zeitgeist.”

Matthew’s last exhibition at Converge (2013), The Letters, comprised 333 works each mailed to the gallery.  Some pieces were missives, others fragments from various alphabets, faux books and his award-winning floor-to-ceiling lexicon the “SPECIAL K WORDS.”

A pair of Pussy Prints, "Secretary" and "Applied Sciences," (right), have also been produced for Pressure Washing.  For information, prices and availability, please contact Converge Gallery.

Matthew Rose’s collages, text works, prints, drawings and altered books and objects are widely collected both privately and publicly throughout Europe and the US. Currently Matthew Rose’s “Self Improvement Alphabet,” a 26-piece collage installation, is on view at The Cornell Museum, Delray Beach, Florida.  He also conceived and launched the global project A Book About Death. His works have been featured in Axis of Evil (Qualicatica 2004); Masters of Collage (Lark, 2009); Cutting Edges (Gestalten, 2010); and the artist is currently involved in producing two books : Weekend Plans (Burning Boy 2015) and As Is, (Burning Boy 2015) a collection of written and photographic essays about Rose’s 30 years making and exhibiting art. 

“Pressure Washing” will be on view at Converge Gallery March 6 through April 25, 2015, with an opening on Friday 6 March, beginning at 6 pm.  

For all press inquiries, photo requests and the PDF catalog/checklist of the exhibition, please contact John Yogodzinski, director, Converge Gallery : john@convergegallery.com. 

Web: convergegallery.com. Tel: 1.570.435.7080 Earth: Converge Gallery 140 West 4th Street, Williamsport, PA 17701, USA. 

Download the large format poster of the exhibition (PDF).  Print it at home, office, factory : Pressure Washing : Matthew Rose 2015

TAKE A VIRTUAL TOUR OF THE EXHIBITION.

Z 2 A : A Collage Alphabet

Z2A  – a collage alphabet – now available.  Curated and designed by Allan Bealy, this ABC brings together 26 artists from the world over all working in collage.  My B is for Beauty is from my series A Perfect Friend.

You can hit "preview" and browse the entire book.  Buy a copy in print or digital.  Support the artists.  Without art we'd just have well, not much at all.  Check it out: Z2A.

Artists include: Jani At Moonbugink, Rozenn Le Gall, Lance Glover, Manu Duf, Matthew Rose, Ted Tollefson, Carl Chew, Ryoichi Katoh, Laura Tringali Holmes, Jon Foster, Luc Fierens, Larry Zdeb, Flore Kunst, Heike Weber, Carolina Chocron, Fred Free, Indiana Rogers, Frank Voigt, Sally Wassink, Image Butcher, Sethapong Povatong, Joe Castro, Zach Collins and Koji Nagai.

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.

LOST FOR WORDS - EXTENDED THRU 30 NOVEMBER 2014

READ THE LITTLE ARTICLE FROM THE PARIS BLOG

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.

NEWS FROM FRANCE - ART GOODIES : RUBENS ROUNDING THIRD STAMP SHEET

Now available through ART GOODIES, France, Rubens Rounding Third: Jeter Un Coup d'Oeil / Take A Look.... 

http://www.art-goodies.com/en/signed-and-numeroted-artwork/1939-board-of-collector-stamps-by-the-artist-matthew-rose.html

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/

Paris FIAC? Lost For Words - Matthew Rose at The BRKLYN

Sin, collage on canvas, 40 x 40 cm. 2006. 

All FIAC'd out? Need a drink? Lost For Words and exhibition of collages, objects and astuces takes place during FIAC Week in Paris at The BRLYN, 58 Rue Quincampoix 75004 Paris, right around the corner from the Pompidou. Have a drink at this great watering hole and see: Lost For Words.

Contact: Lost For Words.

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

Download print and share the poster : One Thousand Queens.

PDF - A3 Size and larger.

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.

Lost For Words: Opening 4 October, Paris at The BKLYN

Exhibition opens 4 October (Nuit Blanche) ... Download and print this high-resolution  poster (A3 and larger).  LOST FOR WORDS POSTER LINK. Bring it to the show and I'll sign it for you.  I will have about 20 signed posters at the exhibition if you'd like one.

Rubens Rounding Third, 2014, River Mill Art Gallery NJ

Rubens Rounding Third, print, edition: 11, 2014. Each printed 14 x 18 inches; Ilford Gallerie Pearl Satin paper.  Signed and dated on back (adhesive sticker).

Available exclusively: River Mill Art Gallery, 504 North Ave East, Westfield, NJ 07090.  Contact : Michael Chan, Director.   River Mill also has a small number of signed and dated Rubens Rounding Third A3-sized stamp sheets, edition 1000.  Ask Michael about them. 

Converge Gallery : Catalog of Works

Converge Gallery relaunched their site with updated artist pages. My works are presented here: Matthew Rose Converge Gallery.

Everything Touches Everything : Suicide Specials

Read the full article on Artillery: http://artillerymag.com/everything-touches-everything/

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.

Art From Parts : Cornell Museum, Delray Beach, Florida

Online version: http://www.sun-sentinel.com/features/fl-artist-matthew-rose-20140602,0,2291612.story

Converge Gallery Contact: Cornell Museum Exhibition Matthew Rose

ROUGE, 1993

ROUGE, 1993.  Collage on bottles.  Exhibited over the years in Paris and Berlin and London. Photo in my studio by Cecil Touchon.  Click on the image to enlarge.

UNCOUTH VERMOUTH & A PERFECT FRIEND ON TEE VEE

Bianca Miraglia, creator of Brooklyn-based Uncouth Vermouth, takes to tee vee's Arise Entertainment to talk about her special blend of locally produced (Red Hook, Brooklyn) vermouth, and show off my A Perfect Friend labels for her Vermouth. 

A LOOK BACK: A KICK IN THE KUNST 2008 BERLIN

A KICK IN THE KUNST : Installation, Drawings. Galerie Rossella Junck, Augustrasse, Berlin, 2008.  Some of these drawings are available.  Contact : KICK.