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Ruth Bachofner Gallery is pleased to present You Are Not the Only Thing I See Sometimes, the gallery’s third solo exhibition of Los Angeles-based artist Matthew Penkala. There will be a reception for the artist on Saturday, February 27, 5-7 PM.
Conflating a variety of specific cultural, digital, and painting vocabularies, Matthew Penkala’s subtly illusive paintings continue his examination of perceptual and conceptual flux within a static object. The new works, large scale paintings on canvas, are intriguing multi-layered compositions of fragmented reductive elements suspended in, dissolving into, and softly masking colorful expanses of gradations. Confounded interactions within the compositions create visual, physical, and conceptual fluctuating conditions.
The paintings are the result of several processes and exist in various environments before they are output. Elements of collected imagery and historical painting structures are combined and abstracted in the computer environment to form a digital image and then translated by way of airbrush and spray gun to the canvas. The airbrush medium disperses particles of paint in a manner mimetic of the dispersion of digital information and pixelation, the individual bits of which come together to form a larger image. The paintings are experienced in realtime as physical, visually dynamic objects and tie themselves to the virtual reality of digital representation through their exploitations of optics, computer generated imagery, and various design models and media.
Matthew Penkala lives and works in Los Angeles and is a graduate of Cranbrook Academy of Art (MFA) and Arizona State University (BFA).
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