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Hatch Gallery

June 6 - June 6, 2013

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492 23rd Street Oakland, CA 94612
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What Are I? Mathew Zefeldt, Consistency Consistency (2013), Acrylic on canvas
Hatch Gallery and guest curator Svea Lin Soll are pleased to present “What Are I?,” a selection of new works by Mathew Zefeldt. “80 Milliseconds in the Past,” a project by Chris Pew, will also be on view. Exploring, skewing, and stretching the material possibilities of paint while questioning methods of image making and their related histories, Mathew Zefeldt’s paintings and sculptures act as self-reflexive still-life arrangements that give one access to a seemingly fictional world. Entities ranging from studio detritus to multiplied classical statue heads are represented in recurrent form, situated atop shelves or upon wooden tables. Unabashedly textured and saturated in color, many of Zefeldt’s objects are comically impasto, comprised from whole ropes of squeezed paint. Background images appear to emulate the monotony of checkers or a stream of haywire television frequencies. Just as Zefeldt’s painterly technique directly references it’s own materiality, the repetition of his subjects call to mind the ways in which images are commonly produced, appropriated and reproduced through analog and digital media. Merging the dynamic, and often polar worlds of science and art, Oakland artist Chris Pew explores ideas of abstract cosmos and different trajectories for the unobservable universe. His work revolves around interpretations of scientific theories and his interest in their hypothetical conditions. With the idea that life is lived 80 milliseconds in the past, Pew presents black and white abstract compositions of pixelated geometric designs and ballooning curves that at once suggest and deny figuration. Visually recalling glitches associated with malfunctioning technology, these works expose the hidden boundaries inherent to all media and exist in a state of beautifully ambiguous meaning. Hatch Gallery 492 23rd Street Oakland, Ca 94612 t/f: 510.798.6566