Art: Matt Greene Surrender show at Deitch Projects
From the Deitch.com website:
Known for his ethereal landscapes of fleshy fungi and bushy bombshells, Matt Greene continues in this series an exploration of his favorite shelves in the library: horticulture, vintage pornography, horror films, fairy tales, 19th Century Symbolist art, and of course the history of Modernism. These disparate interests—and the weighty themes of gender, sexuality, and epistemology that accompany them—Greene masterfully approaches in a hallucinatory, visionary manner allowing them to come together in phantasmagoric splendor on his canvases.
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Splendor is correct. But I wasn't observant of any weighty themes in these wonderful and engrossing pieces (most are large enough to not fit inside my apartment at any angle). I simply noticed that there was a common theme of a sort of playful sexuality, like pornography but without the cold faces. In these mostly party-themed paintings and sketches, you can feel the warmth and the joy of the female faces looking back at the audience. It's like a 1970's disco orgy on canvas, and everyone's having a great time.
