***Recent Work***
Using an amalgam of oil painting techniques, Matthew T. Perry creates a body of work re-contextualizing and exploring Cold War fear, the atomic age, and the golden age of Hollywood. Through a distorted lens of mid-century America, Perry tells a story of a vague apocalypse where the interpretation is contingent on the viewer’s current anxieties. A collision of nostalgic past and theoretical future, creating artifacts and snapshots of a hypothetical apocalypse. That apocalypse which we are always at the brink of; that never comes? The end is nigh.
Matthew currently lives in Los Angeles, working as both a painter and visual-effects artist for TV/Film.
M+P
Can We Play Dolls Now?
2024, oil on panel, 24 x 24 in.
For Bodywork Exhibition at La Luz de Jesus Gallery
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