“Radical Fluidity: Grotesque in Art,” MISP Museum, St

Press Release for the Museum show hosting four of my paintings at Музей МИСП in St. Petersburg Russia:

The Museum of St. Petersburg Art (20th–21st centuries), a branch of Central Exhibition Hall Manege, is pleased to announce the opening of an International Art Project Radical Fluidity. Grotesque in Art, that will run from December 7, 2018 till February 17, 2019. The exhibition is the first attempt at artistic research into the topic of grotesque within the museum space.

Grotesque in art will be shown through the prism of more than 100 artists from Russia, France, Italy, Germany, Belgium, United Kingdom, USA, China and other countries. Is grotesque an artistic paradox, phantasmagoria of imagery or an idiosyncratic, exaggerated perception?

The project curators encourage the visitors to trace modifications that the grotesque topic has undergone throughout centuries, to see the…

Recently received the paintings back from St. Petersburg Russia that were part of the museum exhibition at the MISP Музей искусства Санкт-Петербурга XX - XXI веков

Very happy and honored to be part of the show and so happy to get my paintings back in perfect condition, along with a few large catalogs from the museum about the show!

I'll be reaching out to the people wanting to buy the paintings in the near future... email me or message if you want to be on the list. thanks!! Matt . (ps. huge THANK YOU to Afrodite Oikonomidou !)

here is a blurb about the exhibit: Radical fluidity. The grotesque in art

An exhibition dedicated to the grotesque in art will be opened inside the Museum of XXth-XXIst century art in Saint-Petersburg. This large-scaled project contains about 300 works painted by more than 100 authors from Russia, France, Italy, Germany, USA, China and other countries. At…