Matthew Palladino "New Work"
Fredericks & Freiser Gallery
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For his first show at Fredericks & Freiser, Palladino will present large-scale paintings that pulsate with bright colors and disorienting depth perception.
Matthew Palladino’s work can tie any person trying to solve it into knots. With a highly digitized aesthetic rendered by hand, his characters float throughout his simultaneously flat and illusionistic spaces as if they have been there forever. Assuming an archetypal stature, recognizable figures appear in serial form and move about his labyrinthine landscapes trapped in groundhog- day repetition. Bright colors zig zag the eye into a latticework of directions turning bodies and faces into shapes and forms. Vacillating between narration and abstraction, Palladino reminds us of our instinctual impulse to find the story, while letting us linger in visceral limbo.
[Image: Matthew Palladino "Backyard (Bomb Shelter)" (2011) acrylic on paper 59 x 46 in.]
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from May 05, 2011 to June 11, 2011