July 10 – 14, 2019
2019년 7월 10– 14일
Flexspace A, CICA Museum
Cook Until Raw
I animate worlds of constructivist expressionism where my work’s meaning comes from its action. My video-based action painting generates figures of abstraction exploring implications of movement between forms. I orchestrate defined marks into optical, organic and mechanical moves — using handmade and digital techniques — aiming to relocate, redefine and rematerialize spirituality in the age of the algorithm.
I begin by making digital collages — model sketches for paintings and videos — from scanned paint marks, folded paper, and other handmade moves. Each resulting painting compresses the time of its video counterpart into object; likewise, each of my “painting-in-motion” videos unpacks its painting analog into experience, taking form in large-scale architectural projections, monitor works and video sculptures. I’m fascinated by confrontational behaviors between edges, so my formal entry points for conceptual collision include: raw materialities of gestural paint strokes, ideas contained by drawn stencils and involuntary opticalities found in adjacent, oppositional textures and color systems.
In studio and exhibitions, I pit my paintings-in-motion against my paintings to see which ones “win,” resulting in hybrid vigor between mediums, inviting viewers to question how works are made and orders of operations making them.* These conflicted adjacencies define my abstract work’s meaning from dissonant actions and movements. Ultimately individually described by sharp, double-entendre titles, my architectural video installations and paintings address contemporary power relations between handmade physical reality and the click + drag mentality, aiming to locate the soul squeezed within their rhythms.
Matt Sheridan’s video-based action painting explores worlds of constructivist expressionism where his work’s meaning comes from its actions. Each of his “painting-in-motion” videos unpacks its painting analog into experiential, architectural projections sometimes edited live on-the-spot. Sheridan earned his BFA from NYU/Tisch School of the Arts and his MFA from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. He has taught at the School of Visual Arts, Pratt Institute and NYU in New York and Singapore, and at UCLA’s Geffen Academy. Sheridan has screened work in two Olympic Games, exhibited work in museums such as Centre Pompidou, the Jeu de Paume in Paris and most recently CICA Museum in South Korea, won multiple grants and participated in exhibitions, residencies, fellowships and events from Finland to Japan, India to Brazil, France to Australia and USA from New York to Miami to Los Angeles. Sheridan’s work is in American collections in New York, Los Angeles and Miami, and also Australian collections in Sydney and Brisbane. In 2018 Sheridan received a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant and presented new video projections at the W Hotel Brisbane; in August 2019 Sheridan returns to Brisbane for his third solo exhibition of paintings and videos at TWFINEART. Matt Sheridan lives and works in Los Angeles, California, USA.
