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November Issue
2008
Redux Contemporary Art Center in Charleston,
SC, Features Works by Matt Phillips and Josef Kristofoletti
Redux Contemporary Art Center in Charleston, SC, is presenting the exhibit, The Sun Machine is Coming Down, featuring works by Matt Phillips and Josef Kristofoletti. The exhibit curated by Seth Curcio will be on view through Dec. 13, 2008.
The artists, who met during graduate school at Boston University in 2005-07, employ a graphic style of painting where the formal qualities of pattern, color and space converge into an accessible and humanistic creation, offering the viewer layers of meaning both visually and conceptually. Object and illusion are at the core of each artist's respective interest as they synthesize information into a graphic language that flattens space and expands time.
Matt Phillips
Matt Phillips' paintings can be upwards of
18' in length, fully immersing the viewer in fields of colors
and patterns, which at first seem to reference primarily modernist
ideals. Yet Phillips injects the work with contemporary issues,
some universal and others highly personal. With obsessive surface
attention, the artist will hand sew patches of fabric and single
threads directly onto the canvas, which have the potential to
mimic a vast universe of constellations, a molecular structure,
or a family quilt. Phillips' interest in painting as
both object and illusion opens his visual vocabulary infinitely
and allows for constant experimentation within each new work.
Phillips recently completed an exhibition with Petra Projects hosted at Mehr Gallery in NYC and participated in Gangbusters at Plane Space Gallery, also in NYC. The artist currently teaches painting at Hampshire College in Amherst, MA.
Josef Kristofoletti will be present at Redux for two weeks prior to the opening, creating a new painting directly on the walls of Redux. This large-scale temporary painting will address the concept of visualizing the invisible, as he creates new work referencing the CERN Accelerator, the world's largest particle physics laboratory for nuclear research. Kristofoletti has been creating large-scale paintings and murals for several years with recent major workings including Sneaker Mountain and Holiday (time-lapse videos featured on Redux website). The artist is also a member of the Transit Antenna Team, a Redux partnering program, featuring Redux founders Bob Snead and Seth Gadsden. The group is currently traveling cross-country in a 40' bio-diesel bus creating short documentaries and collaborative art projects.
At the closing of the exhibition, Redux will launch a special edition catalogue of the show featuring full length interviews, articles and conversations with the artists, full color images of work featured in The Sun Machine is Coming Down, and other rare selections by the artists. A limited amount of the catalogues will be signed by each artist and will contain a special DVD featuring a time-lapse video of Josef Kristofolletti's new painting at Redux. These catalogues will be available to the public during a special release event during the last day of the exhibit, Dec. 13, 2008, from 12-5pm.
For further information check our SC Institutional
Gallery listings, call the Center at 843/722-0697 or visit (www.reduxstudios.org).
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