Night Skies
NGC 3372
2013
cocaine dust on photographer's velvet
52 x 120 ½ inches
LDN 935
2016
cocaine dust on photographer's velvet
60 1/8 inches diameter
River and Sky
2016
Yossi Milo Gallery
River and Sky
2016
Yossi Milo Gallery
installation view of NGC 2070
2016
cocaine dust on photographer's velvet
60 1/8 inches diameter
Paris Photo Los Angeles
2013
M+B Gallery
NGC 3324
2013
cocaine dust on photographer’s velvet
73 x 46 inches each panel, 73 x 92 inches
Astronomers on Boat
2013
cocaine dust on photographer's velvet
11 x 14 inches
“At first glance, the series Night Skies (2016) appears borrowed from the stellar archives of NASA imagery, but closer inspection reveals a fine texture to these star clusters. The truth is that these are not prints at all, but rather cocaine that has been carefully sprinkled upon black velvet to mimic stars in the night sky.”
—aperature, Matthew Brandt’s Posin pictures, by Gabriel H. Sanchez, 2016
https://aperture.org/editorial/matthew-brandt/
“This interplay between subject and medium is also evident in his “Night Skies” series. The name is at once descriptive and misleading—although the abstract images seem to make more sense with this title, in truth Brandt arranged cocaine on black velvet to simulate depth.”
—LensCulture, River and Sky, 2016
https://www.lensculture.com/articles/matthew-brandt-river-and-sky