Matt Bollinger, Between the Days

Thru 16 June 2012

The only thing that lingers on from adolescence, in most cases, is a collection of mementos whose images occasionally loom back up into memory. In the light of the present, they may seem to have turned pale, yet they stand out insistently as illustrations of the anxiety or pleasure that an agitated dream can produce on awakening. Matt Bollinger experienced them uneasily, to begin with, but at a certain point he discovered that he could cast light on them through drawing. Figures and landscapes began emerging from the shadows – ghostly kin and familiar places, set down directly on paper like scenes from a film noir. He executed a large three-part drawing, About Midnight Saturday, 2010-2011, in graphite on paper, assembled like a panoramic screen and accompanied by a cardboard loudspeaker that played a soundtrack of his father recounting the tragic evening when he was stabbed several times. This referential work, exhibited in November 2011 at Zürcher Studio in New York, and in January 2012 at Art Los Angeles Contemporary, finds a response in the present exhibition with a large color collage, Grand Prairie School, 2012.

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