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ARTOMATIC!

noreply@blogger.com (matt) — Wed, 07 May 2008 05:40:00 +0000

'LAST STAND' LIVES ON @ ARTOMATIC!
my newest sculpture is set loose on the 11th floor
of a building taken over by hundreds of artists
for a whole month!

ARTOMATIC opens this Friday 5/9/08 12pm-2am
1200 First St NE (First & M) • NY Ave Metro
May 9 - June 15

Meet the Artists Night: Friday, May 16

See my work on the 11th Floor: NW B2

scenes from a studio

noreply@blogger.com (matt) — Mon, 05 May 2008 03:28:00 +0000

OPEN STUDIOS!

noreply@blogger.com (matt) — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 07:20:00 +0000

OPEN STUDIOS @ 52 O STREET
THIS WEEKEND • APRIL 26 & 27 • 11AM-5PM
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NINETEEN ARTISTS • ONE BUILDING

more info check our website: http://www.52ostreetstudios.org

nature gets some press!

noreply@blogger.com (matt) — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 21:37:00 +0000

so today i woke up to discover that
the end of nature show got some press!
first, a nice little review in the Express
and then a "pick" in the City Paper
both articles mention my new sculpture,
providing some great quotes such as how it
"awkwardly occupies" a room, and likening it to
"an alien float in the Rose Bowl Parade"

You can still catch the show at the Warehouse
weekends from 1-5pm through May 4th
with a special poetry reading Sat, April 19th at 2pm

DON'T FORGET!! OPEN STUDIOS at 52 O Street
happening Saturday & Sunday April 26th & 27th
come see 24 artists in one amazing building!!

more flowers false & fresh...

noreply@blogger.com (matt) — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 06:06:00 +0000

a few shots of my new sculpture last stand
in all of it's fake flower glory and another of
the oh-so potent hyacinth i bought with its intoxicating perfume that fueled me onward
all those early morning hours finishing this piece...

now it is residing in it's own special room
upstairs in the amazing warehouse gallery
as part of " the end of nature" show.
i couldn't be prouder to be part of such a strong show...
there is some awesome work in this group show
as you can see in my photo gallery of opening night

P.S. stay tuned for OPEN STUDIOS at 52 O Street
happening Saturday & Sunday April 26th & 27th
come see 24 artists in one amazing building!!

flores falsas y verdaderas

noreply@blogger.com (matt) — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 08:54:00 +0000

went to the cherry blossoms for their annual inspiration
i've been very fake flower focused in my latest work
so i needed to go and immerse myself in the real thing

silk flowers serve as stand-ins in the absence of florality
but they are ready to soldier on if flowers should fall
fiercely imitating nature and also exposing its absence

all of this explored in my newest freestanding sculpture
"last stand" debuting friday night at the Warehouse
as part of the exhibit "The End of Nature"
opening reception friday april 11th, 6-9pm (more info)

detritus-floral

noreply@blogger.com (matt) — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 02:02:00 +0000

tools, pins, and petals litter the floor of my studio
thrown carelessly about by my glue gun-burned hands
as my latest project takes shape, a fake floral monstrosity
i'm bringing to life for The End of Nature show
opening April 11 at the Warehouse Gallery

sun-drenched stampy

noreply@blogger.com (matt) — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 06:01:00 +0000

my gigantic houseplant stampy is a
constant source of inspiration
as he takes up a fair amount of space
in my studio, just basking in the tropical
greenhouse effect of the morning sun
streaming through my windows...
i have pure religious awe for this plant
so prehistoric in his many patterned leaves
lit up by the first light of the day

later in the middle of the night,
i found warmth in the warm orange glow
of this magnificent silk tulip on my floor...
light through plants hypnotizes me

flora-morphus #3: daffodilicious

noreply@blogger.com (matt) — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 07:57:00 +0000

in my preeteen years, my friend and i
right out in the broad suburban daylight
would ransack the neighborhood's gardens
and stuff our shirts and pockets with daffodils
only a few from each yard but they were everywhere!
somehow we were never apprehended in our raids
our bizarre crimes somehow went unnoticed,
we horded those sunny flowers and basked in their glow...

flora-morphus #2

noreply@blogger.com (matt) — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 04:19:00 +0000

flora-morphus #1

noreply@blogger.com (matt) — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 05:03:00 +0000

last (host) stand

noreply@blogger.com (matt) — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 06:25:00 +0000

with a new show quickly approaching
my mind is all abuzz with ideas
developing into an obsession of images
sketched over and over on any available surface
so it was not in my sketchbook that
my most successful/expressive sketch appeared
but on my reservation pad at work,
right under Debbie, party of two...

working on a piece for the upcoming show
The End of Nature, at the Warehouse next month
but if nature is going down, it won't be without a fight!
my work represents nature's last stand
embodied as a lumbering floral monstrosity
wobbling towards the viewer on unsteady legs
slightly menacing and utterly ridiculous

views out/through my window

noreply@blogger.com (matt) — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 03:01:00 +0000

Gimmie a P

noreply@blogger.com (matt) — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 19:11:00 +0000

"future reflections"

noreply@blogger.com (matt) — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 04:14:00 +0000

leapt from my car, raced up the stairs, and threw open my window
the artic blast stirred up wind chimes overhead in an excitable frenzy
billowy gusts of powdery roof snow swirled across sightlines
a deep murky shadow was sucking the white out of the moon
frozen in awe, it was all i could to to watch the slow sliver sinking
somewhat like a reverse sunset as watched through a glass eye?

if you like my lunar e, come see my new glitter-encrusted p
in the Peace NOW! art exhibit at the Warehouse Gallery
Opening Reception this Friday, Feb 22nd from 6-9pm: more info

glitteration

noreply@blogger.com (matt) — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 08:07:00 +0000

as every inch of my apartment and body
become infused with glitter from my new piece
and i'm seeing trails as light bounces off of every fleck

i realize i've exhibited a great deal of restraint thus far
in not finding a way to work glitter into everything i make

it's intoxicating... i lay drooling over how magical it is to gaze upon
it's like we shouldn't be able to be exposed to such stimulation
which is exactly the perfect reason to use glitter in my work!

a glimpse of peace

noreply@blogger.com (matt) — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 05:27:00 +0000

i'm not often inclined to make mock-ups,
half-assed versions of my vision, why not go all the way??

so when i began thinking/sketching out my next piece
i was suddenly compelled into a frenzy of foam & paint,
a much needed reconnection with the magic of glitter,
and suddenly there it was... un maquette du prix de paix!

i am quite taken with the rough results thus far
but can't get too attached at this stage,
it can only get bigger and better from here

sketchy reservations

noreply@blogger.com (matt) — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 04:05:00 +0000

as the host of a restaurant
one of the tools of my new trade
is the reservation/waitinglist pad,
a long strip of temptation in my eyes

you can usually gage a day's business
by the amount of the pad covered by
my addictive scribblings of word & symbol
it's like having a mini sketchbook-on-the-go

this particular page charts my mind's progress
on a sluggish MLK monday lunch shift...
still sore from a prince dance party the night before
i conjured up a tropical beach party in space
there might be some slight inspiration from
the trippy space settings of super mario galaxy
but i think SPACE BEACH is the perfect setting
for a interstellar PRINCE DANCE PARTY!!

add some ginger

noreply@blogger.com (matt) — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 20:10:00 +0000

early morning dew drops moisten waxy petals
red shell ginger at its most potent...
sharp red contrast against grass green
didn't think to drink the drips for was there flavor in them?

wish i'd done that

noreply@blogger.com (matt) — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 08:01:00 +0000

it doesn't happen often but every once and awhile
i see something by another artist that just makes me
blush with envy wishing i had thought of it first...
like this beautiful combo of boy & blossom
done by photographer Mikel of toxicboy photography

a chistmas classic

noreply@blogger.com (matt) — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 09:12:00 +0000

infinite expansion

noreply@blogger.com (matt) — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 08:55:00 +0000

sometimes we need to look outside ourselves
to really be able to see what is possible within

monumental star-fueled space explosions
are going on inside of us all the time...

stars are reflected in inspired eyes
take power from outside ourselves
and see it mirrored within...

but inner paradise only fully flourishes
when unleashed back on the world...

fiberous matter

noreply@blogger.com (matt) — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 06:55:00 +0000

seed smacked open

noreply@blogger.com (matt) — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 05:49:00 +0000

the invasive myna bird overhead
insistently, obsessively, instinctively
pecks at the hanging green seed pod
in the tree above until a stem snap
drops it with a smack on the pooldeck
the essential last act that cracks it open

green skin gives way to raw yellow insides
offering up the focal/functional point of the seed
fanned on all sides by split circle shards,
the seed center speaks only in spiral
drawing one inward, hypnotized and lulled
until resigned & ready to do nature's bidding

world-wowed

noreply@blogger.com (matt) — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 08:22:00 +0000

feeling like crushed flower on concrete...

i was nourished and blooming on a tropical island
petals warmed and vines curious and healthy
then the wind delivered me across oceans
and deposited on a lover's doorstep
i was taken in and cared for
acclimated to new surroundings
began to sprout new, stronger root systems
but eventually i was transplanted yet again
to a colder winter city climate
disoriented and without direction...

must get grounded, begin to reflect
much data & stimulus to catalog & share
stay tuned...