Light & Matter
April 21 - September 4, 2022
Forest Lawn Museum, Glendale, CA
“I read an article about a seventeen-foot tall, marble replica of Michelangelo’s David that the Forest Lawn Cemetery owns. It had collapsed under its own weight, and broke into pieces. I called the museum and asked if I could photograph it and get a piece of the marble to grind into marble dust to use as a printing medium. They gave me the OK and I came with my camera. A crew with a forklift helped me move the pieces around into a composition that worked. The chunk of marble was ground to dust and using silkscreen, I created this work, David 1B.”
Forest Lawn Museum, Glendale, CA
April 21 - September 4, 2022
Light & Matter: The Art of Matthew BrandtLight & Matter: The Art of Matthew Brandt is a retrospective featuring more than 100 photographs and multi-media artworks, some of which have never before been exhibited. Light & Matter examines how Matthew Brandt continually reinvents and reimagines his artistic practice. Large-scale portraits rendered in molten metal, photographs altered by lakes and waterfalls, and images printed in edible materials are among the more than 20 distinct bodies of work in the exhibition. Brandt’s artistic approach is rooted in tradition, but his work is both visually and conceptually innovative. He often utilizes early photographic processes and techniques, including some that date to the 19th century.
“Matthew Brandt captures not just the image that his camera records. His works are a diary of a creative soul expanding the limits of a medium to capture elements of his life and express the ineffable space between being and nothingness. His images are spectral and dream-like. They are a scrim, through which we perceive the world we know, and the forces of transformation, the active elements of this metamorphic world. He leaves us a trace: the strata of his experiments and discoveries; mapping the trajectory of his imagination.”
-Gary Brewer, https://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/light-matter-art-matthew-brandt/5396