With a practice previously concerned with figuration, Matt Kleberg’s latest operate provides the absence of any depicted actor. Pregnant spaces and the existence of the hand indicate the chance of the determine, and, by extension, implicate the viewer in their very own embodiment. The insistent framing in all of the operate, and the sculptural elements of some, reiterate that the paintings by themselves are objects or bodies in place.
Kleberg will work on paper to workshop probable painting compositions. They are iterated and reiterated over and over right until a little something pops, at which position he jumps in excess of to a larger canvas. Exhibiting the paintings and drawings in dialogue together encapsulates a comprehensive method on the wall- conception, iteration, and realization.
The two big paintings showcased in this exhibition are referred to as Boxspring Slipstream and Splitscreen Slipstream. Kleberg expresses that he’s drawn to the plan of a slipstream, this house just one passes conveniently as a result of, pretty much as if carried alongside, juxtaposed with boxspring and splitscreen, each more or a lot less suggestions/sorts that perform with flatness, frames, supports. This interest is revealed in recent perform an desire in a tension among seeing the paintings as invites to entry and as barriers.
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