Clippings
‘Hillary Clinton greets employees at the Mirage in Las Vegas,'
L.A. Times 11.05.2016
2016 - 2017
rhinestuds on canvas
73 x 43 1/4 inches
detail of ‘Hillary Clinton greets employees at the Mirage in Las Vegas,'
L.A. Times 11.05.2016
2016 - 2107
rhinestuds on canvas
73 x 43 1/4 inches
'For her first state dinner in 2009, Michelle Obama
picks a sleeveless gown' L.A. Times, 12.18.2016
2017
rhinestuds on canvas
73 x 43 1/4 inches
'A demonstrator hands flowers to a Thai soldier...'
L.A. Times, 02.13.2014
2016
rhinestuds on canvas
55 1/4 x 32 1/4 inches
'Same-sex Couples get married at San Francisco City Hall,'
L.A. Times, 6.26.2015
2015
rhinestuds on canvas
54 3/4 x 31 ¾ inches
'Marisela Garcia, holding son Abraham Angulo,'
L.A.Times, 10.30.2013
2015
rhinestuds on canvas
73 x 43 1/2 inches
Crop 2, 'Tourists visit the Capital Rotunda
in Washington.'
2014
rhinestuds and caviar on canvas
72 x 42 inches
'Spectators take in the start of the Annual Newport
to Ensenada Yacht Race,' L.A. Times, 4.24.2015
2015
rhinestuds on canvas
35 x 21 5/16 inches
“The series Clippings addresses the fading prominence of printed news. Brandt employs the lithography printing process, typically used for newspapers, to reproduce blown-up details of a found photograph from the Los Angeles Times depicting tourists at the United States Capitol Rotunda in Washington, D.C. The magnified newsprint image breaks down into colored dots of cyan, magenta, yellow and black, which the artist recreates on canvas using rhinestuds of varying sizes to define the CMY color dots and caviar for the black. Clippings celebrate the materiality of newspaper photographs, fleeting images that are disposed of daily and quickly forgotten.”
—Wall Street International, Matthew Brandt: Excavations, 2014