Todd Brugman finishes smoking his tobacco pipe and begins to carefully layer golden-orange oil paint onto a strip of birch panel. The light sketches of geometric figures in front of him wait patiently to be filled by layer after semi-transparent…
When Matter & Light director, Ian Corbin, describes his life’s origin, it is almost unbelievable. This, in part, is due to his aesthetic: he’s on the couch in the back of the gallery finishing up an email on his MacBook…
In college, she studied painting. She had wanted to be a writer. Her father was a writer. But in college, she transitioned from drawing fictions on a page to painting pictures onto canvases. She was committed to painting when she…
Nest. Cave. Den. When we speak about our homes, the spaces we have carved out for ourselves in the world, we speak of them in terms once reserved for animal habitats. Like crows and magpies, drawn to bright plastics and…
John C. Gonzalez works with people. A native of Providence, Rhode Island, his artwork is broadly concerned with systems of labor and collaborative processes of creativity. Positioning himself as an embedded artist within organizations, companies, and exchange relationships, he exposes…