Matthew Bone
"Paradise Lost"
February 3 - 26, 2012
Opening Reception: Friday, February 3rd; 8-11 PM
"Come with me and join the Darkside," the ventilated voice said as its owner's gloved hand extended towards the hero. In Matthew Bone's story, he accepted and a new world was opened up to him, breaching the inner sanctum of the old. Growing up a latchkey kid in the 80's, his unattended viewing and reading habits slowly migrated towards the adult at far too early of an age. While Matthew still had the rich, innocent imaginary life of a boy who could defeat an alien invasion or help save the city from his archnemesis, the shadow of a different interior world was cast. In Bone's newest body of work the icons and visual cliches of two seemingly disparate spheres collide (comics, Star Wars, toys vs. Hustler, Chic, Juggs) finally forming what has long brewed in his head into a tangible visual language for the first time.
Artist Bio
Born (in 1974) into a clan of Tuscan Raiders and reared in Los Angeles, then raised on a diet of comic books, horror movies, and pornography, Matthew Bone injects a distinctive voice into his painting. Pride, lust, vengeance, the lurid underbelly of humanity, and the allegories that illustrate the consequences of it's revelation have long been the focus of his work. By utilizing the conventions of pop culture, and it's willingness to embrace the artifice as the sincere, Matthew is able to create a reinvisioned modern mythology. Bone's work can be seen internationally. He lives with his ol' lady and a menagerie of pets at the bottom of a wishing well in downtown Los Angeles.
The images below are work-in-progress pics. Final images will be uploaded on Wednesday, February 1st.
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