Artist
Statement
Salvages
and Translations
This
exhibit is made up of seven paintings ; I started
work on these paintings while at the Djerassi
Resident Artists Program in Woodside, California,
in August of 2000. Planned as a meditation on the
dichotomy between the Arcadian beauty and isolation
of the Djerassi environs, and the Bay Area Megalopolis
right over the hill, this body of work evolved into
industrial grade aerial landscapes; environmentally
engaged, obsessively detailed. These paintings recapitulate
my work of the 1990's, heavily patinaed, metallic,
and full of electronic debris.
I am an
artist whose work has functioned, in its various phases,
like photography and digital imagery, through aerial
perspectives and the breakdown of space. My paintings,
drawings and prints inevitably explore landscape and
memory as well as illustrating the impact and intrusion
of technology.
-John Matlack
Mr. Matlack
received a Master's Degree in Art Practice from the
University of California at Berkeley. He has exhibited
widely throughout Colorado and the western states
including the Museum of Contemporary Art/Denver, the
Denver Art Museum, The Colorado Springs Fine Art Center,
the Aspen Center for the Arts and Humanities, the
Yellowstone Art Center, the University of California
at Davis, the Berkeley Art Center, and the Boulder
Museum of Contemporary Art. He has received
several awards and grants including the 2000 Dale
Djerassi Fellowship, the Neodata Endowment for the
Arts and Humanities, and the Boulder Arts Commission
Individual Artist Grant. He has completed several
arts residencies, including the Djerassi Resident
Artist Program in Woodside , California, and Shark's
Ink, in Lyons, Colorado. He has curated several exhibitions
including ”Pure Painting” at the Boulder Museum of
Contemporary Art which won Westword's Best
of Denver Award. He has worked as artist assistant
to Christo and Jeanne-Claude on many of their
temporary art projects, including “The Running Fence
Project”. He served on the Board of Directors of the
Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art from 1991-98. Mr.
Matlack shows his work at Spark Gallery in Denver.
He was awarded a second residency at
the Djerassi Program which he completed in
January, 2004, and is anticipating a third residency
in January, 2008. A solo exhibit of Mr.
Matlack's work entitled “Maps” was exhibited at BMOCA
early in 2006.
Mr. Matlack's
work appears in many public and private collections,
including the Legislative Services Building, Art in
Public Places Program, Denver, Co, City of Boulder,
Boulder Public Library, The Tweed Museum of Art, University
of Minnesota,, and the Denver Hyatt Convention Center
Hotel.
For further information contact
John Matlack at (303) 601-5370, or email jwmatlack@yahoo.com.
sparkgallery.com.
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