Matt Campbell: Out of the Black
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Exhibition Dates: April 1-30, 2010
Opening Reception: April 1, 7-9 p.m.
gallery hanahou
611 Broadway, Suite 730, New York City
www.outoftheblack.org
www.galleryhanahou.comMatt Campbell has been producing personal and commercial artwork for 25 years. Originally from New Zealand, he spent the early nineties in Japan working for companies like Hysteric Glamour and Mini before he moved to NYC in 1994.
Matt Started out as a comic artist but soon took up illustration and later animation. However, personal art has always been a passion and no matter what he was doing for a living Matt has always found time for his own art. Matt has exhibited widely in NZ and in 1997 had a solo show at the Rocket Gallery in Aoyama, Tokyo – his old stomping ground. Since then he has staged several solo shows including Greedy Gas Guzzlers at the Riviera and also at Zakka in NYC in 2003. As a founding partner of the Riviera Gallery in Williamsburg Brooklyn, Matt has curated and staged numerous shows from 2003 – 2008.
Matt’s recent multi-media work, painting, sculpture and printmaking etc, explores themes mostly concerned with consumerism and pop culture and the subsequent impact on, and alienation from, the natural environment. This show “Out of the Black” is a continuation and perhaps his ultimate expression of the Human race vs. the natural environment.