Time Walk is published on the occasion of Matt Jones—Time Walk at Galerie Jerome Pauchant, Paris, with a brilliant poem-essay by Anthony Hawley.
Time Walk presents a series of paintings that take up the artiface and the exaggeration of Mannerism, and the decadence and pageantry of Rococo. After a residency in Udine and Venice, Italy (funded by a grant from the Kossak Painting Program at Hunter College), and Paris, France, (organized by Galerie Jérôme Pauchant) Jones’s newest body of work references Giambattista Tiepolo, Jean- Honoré Fragonard, the Hudson River School painters, and the digital environments of open world fantasy Role Playing Games. The paintings generate a multivalent topology by layering simultaneous alternative realities. Guided as much by history as by affect, Time Walk centers the viewer as an active participant in the narrative of each paintings’ field of significations.
An interview by Benjamin Riley with Matt Jones about his life and work.
Hauser & Wirth is honored to host a presentation of thesis work by 19 MFA candidates from New York City’s Hunter College. Originally planned as physical exhibitions at their Tribeca campus this spring and postponed due to COVID-19, this digital spotlight provides a new platform for these emerging artists entering the field.
I am excited to announce Gravity Spell, the first of four Fall 2020 Hunter MFA thesis shows, and the one in which i am participating.
Co-curated by Julia Speed (Luhring Augustine), this online exclusive exhibition highlights some of the best work from MFA students across the United States whose graduate thesis shows were canceled or postponed due to COVID-19.