"dromedary
resting"
this
weekend.
Matt Connors
c/o Cherry and Martin
Authority Curve Green Alphabet
2009
Oil and pencil on canvas
16 x 12 inches
"Matt Connors’ works examine a range of non-mimetic signs including touch, frame and surface, while flirting with representing possibilities of a number of different emblems, including letter and number forms, stars and pennants. Some of these emblems are gleaned from everyday usage and seem oddly familiar. Some of them are mysterious and open the door to the possibility of private meanings. Exploring the idiosyncrasies of personal vision while directing the viewer in a loose, yet insistent way, Connors’ paintings elicit an emotional and visceral response while at the same time allowing for a range of intellectual questions. It has been suggested that Connors’ pictures are not so much abstract paintings as paintings of abstract paintings. In some sense this is true, yet, at the same time, Connors' paintings have a not-to-be overlooked handmade aspect that thoroughly grounds viewer and object in their own space."
"The Boneyard"
curated by Tony Payne, of PHIL
TOM FRIEDMAN
RICHARD HAWKINS
ROBERT HAWKINS
WHITNEY HUBBS
ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE
KEITH MAYERSON
HELMUT NEWTON
GEORGE STOLL
TOM OF FINLAND
GRETA WALLER
at
MALONEY FINE ART + KIM LIGHT / LIGHTBOX
SATURDAY 27 FEBRUARY 2010 6 - 8PM
2680 LA CIENEGA BOULEVARD
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