Matt Connors
Hocket, Oct 20 – Dec 10, 2017
Past: 333 Broome St
Installation view, Hocket, Canada, New York, 2017
Installation view, Hocket, Canada, New York, 2017
Installation view, Hocket, Canada, New York, 2017
Installation view, Hocket, Canada, New York, 2017
Installation view, Hocket, Canada, New York, 2017
Installation view, Hocket, Canada, New York, 2017
Hocket, Canada, New York, 2017
Artworks
Matt Connors,
Yet to be titled,
2017,
10 ⅝ × 10 ⅝ in (26.99 × 26.99 cm)
Acrylic, oil on cardboard
Matt Connors,
Hocket,
2017,
52 ½ × 48 ½ in (133.35 × 123.19 cm)
Acrylic on canvas
Matt Connors,
Hocket Study,
2017,
7 ½ × 7 ½ in (19.05 × 19.05 cm)
Oil on cardboard
Matt Connors,
Darkened Underpass (for SMC),
2017,
75 × 59 ⅛ in (190.50 × 150.18 cm)
Oil, acrylic, colored pencil on canvas
Matt Connors,
Lowered Bright Entry Point,
2017,
22 ½ × 19 ¼ in (57.15 × 48.895 cm)
Oil, acrylic, and colored pencil on canvas
Matt Connors,
After Hocket (Gold),
2017,
52 ½ × 48 ½ in (133.35 × 123.19 cm)
Acrylic on canvas
Matt Connors,
Yet to be titled,
2017,
35 ¼ × 31 ¼ in (89.535 × 79.375 cm)
Oil, acrylic, and colored pencil on canvas
Matt Connors,
Corinthian Column Cross Section,
2017,
41 × 35 in (104.14 × 88.9 cm)
Acrylic on laminate
Matt Connors,
Dice,
2017,
35 ¼ × 31 in (89.535 × 78.74 cm)
Oil, acrylic, and colored pencil on canvas
Matt Connors,
I Saw My Head Laughing, Rolling On The Ground,
2017,
21 × 18 in (53.34 × 45.72 cm)
Oil, acrylic and colored pencil on canvas
Matt Connors,
First Comedies,
2017,
21 ½ × 24 ¾ in (54.61 × 62.865 cm)
Colored pencil on canvas
Matt Connors,
Second Comedies,
2017,
35 ¼ × 31 ⅜ in (89.54 × 79.69 cm)
Acrylic on canvas
Matt Connors,
First Stack,
2016,
72 ½ × 56 ½ in (184.15 × 143.51 cm)
Oil, acrylic on canvas with artists frame
Press Release
CANADA is pleased to announce Hocket, a solo exhibition by Matt Connors.
For his fifth exhibition at the gallery and second on Broome Street, Connors has altered the gallery floor plan into four equal but open quarters. The paintings are held in specific groups while at the same time these added walls create overlapping perspectives and the possibility for non linear encounters.
The term ‘hocket' refers to a spasmodic or interrupted effect produced by dividing a melody between two parts, notes in one part coinciding with rests in the other. Similarly, Connor’s installation continually shifts our vista of the paintings, dismantling the notion of the center, and allowing the viewer to experience the paintings as events as well as images.
Many of the works draw from personal collections of gifts, records, artworks and books amassed in the artists studio. These stacks are abstracted by color and recast into drawing, with essentially found composition. The resulting paintings are as much views to the artists thoughts as riffs on how we see and feel real and imagined spaces. One composition that repeats in a number of paintings (“Hocket”, “After Hocket (Gold)” and “Hocket Study”), is a still life derived from one of these stacks of personal objects and other artworks. Conveying a warmth beyond the logic of their formal aesthetics, these paintings are an index of what matters most to the artist’s life.
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Matt Connors (b. 1973, Chicago, USA) lives and works in New York. Recent solo exhibitions include The Flat Voice at Xavier Hufkens, Brussels (2016); Bottoms at Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles (2015); Not Straight at Herald Street, London (2015) and Machines at CANADA, New York (2014. Connors was the recipient of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in 2012 and Artist in Residence at The Chinati Foundation, Marfa in 2015.
Connors recently started his own publishing company and record label Pre-Echo Press https://www.pre-echo.com
Press
Joe Fyfe "You Are in Good Hands with Matt Connors." Hyperallergic November 30, 2017