“Pressure Washing”: Matthew Rose
at Converge Gallery

matthew-rose-secretary-web

6 March-25 April 2015

Matthew Rose: “Pressure Washing: An Indiscreet But Satisfying Rapture”

Matthew Rose’s third exhibition at Converge Gallery is small and intimate, presenting sometimes erotic, sometimes obscene, indecent, titillating, arousing, risqué, adult works of art rife with bawdy double-entendres and soft-core innuendo.

The 100 hand-cut and painted collage works on board and canvas skew towards the suggestive with splashes of surrealist and pop sensibilities. Along with additional pieces in sealed plastic arranged triple-x magazine-style in a private “American Peep Show” viewing booth, “Pressure Washing” provides a kind of lexica pornographica, a modest pictorial thesaurus of contemporary pleasure.

Curated by Converge Gallery director, John Yogodzinski, these works target “almost every manner of sexual adventure with a sophistication and deep sense of humour that takes no prisoners,” says Yogodzinski. “These works offer rewards that will leave viewers and collectors of art and erotica in stitches and possibly chains. Matthew Rose proves again he is one of our leading collage workers, taking the aesthetic of cut and paste, and pushing past the gates armed with fleshy poetry.”

About Matthew Rose:
US-born and Paris-based Matthew Rose’s collages, text works, prints, drawings and altered books and objects are widely collected both privately and publicly throughout Europe and the US. Rose conceived and launched the global project A Book About Death. His works have been featured in Masters of Collage (Lark, 2009); Cutting Edges (Gestalten, 2010); and Axis of Evil (Qualicatica, 2004). Rose is currently involved in producing two books: Weekend Plans (Burning Boy, 2015) and As Is (Burning Boy, 2015) a collection of written and photographic essays about his 30 years making and exhibiting art.

(adapted from the gallery’s press materials)


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Image:
Secretary
by Matthew Rose
12″x9″
mixed media/collage on chipboard
2006
Courtesy the artist and Converge Gallery, Williamsport, Pennsylvania, USA