Matt Rich - P&!NTING
Halsey McKay Gallery
5 days left
Halsey McKay is pleased to present P&!NTING, Matt Rich’s fifth solo exhibition with the gallery.
"A thick layer of luscious phthalo blue oil paint radiates a purple sheen."
Rich continues to needle at what defines Painting, with ideas of supports and surfaces, objecthood and observation, flatness and relief, abstraction and recognizability.
What defines P&!NTING?
velcro
tabs hold back flaps
Ribbon Ampersand, 2024 (Detail), Acrylic on one piece of canvas, 22 x 30 inches
black rolled paint seeps
through the pixelated pores of thin muslin fabric
Pink Dot Amersand, 2024 (Detail), Acrylic on muslin, 110 x 75 inches
pink nylon string pulls
back doors to reveal a peek-a-boo cut out
Figure Eight, 2024 (Detail), Acrylic on cut canvas and string, grommets, 48 x 42 inches
fluid exchange between
painted marks-on-surface-on-support
Purple Head, 2024 (Detail), Acrylic on canvas, 84 x 60 inches
suspending or pulling
it out off the wall; or allowing it to flop onto the floor
Green and Purple Ampersand, 2024 (Detail), Acrylic on canvas, 26 x 22 inches
the ampersand (&)
is a frequent motif, self-referencing the additive process of building the paintings, as well as positing "and" (instead of "or") as a guiding ethos of acceptance and connection
Double Loop, 2024, Acrylic on canvas, 50 x 55 inches
he has referred to his practice as having a “flawed clarity"
capturing the teetering—sometimes tense exchange—between painterly effect and precise construction
Tower, 2024 (Detail), Acrylic on cut canvas, 106.5 x 37.5 inches
Halsey McKay, 2024
By P&!NTING, Rich has produced a set of new paintings that further develop the possibility for painting as a broad, loose set of material, conceptual, and experiential parameters.
Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton, NY.
