Matthew Brandt: Learning to Surf

EVENT DESCRIPTION

The outcome of Matthew Brandt’s (b. 1982) images are often transformed or distorted during each photo’s development process, expanding upon the limits of the medium. His oeuvre of photo-based and process-heavy works will be on view at Learning to Surf at Rossi & Rossi. Learning to Surf is Brandt’s first show with the gallery and it marks his first ever solo exhibition in Asia. Opening on 27 January through 9 March 2024, the exhibition includes a new series of prints on glass titled Swell, substantiated after his last visit to Hong Kong back in September.

Subject and material entwine in the practice of Brandt, and his fixation on the methods of developing and printing images equates his photography to the process of object making. Subject makes both the pictorial element and the photographic process, clustering tactile layers of reality that was seen and experienced.

ABOUT THE ARTIST / ORGANISER

Photo-based artist Matthew Brandt (b. 1982, Los Angeles) received his BFA from Cooper Union and MFA from UCLA. Brandt has been the subject of institutional solo shows at the Newark Museum, the Columbus Museum of Art, Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art and SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah.

Recent group exhibitions include works in New Territory: Landscape Photography Today at the Denver Art Museum, The Magic Medium at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Light, Paper, Process: Reinventing Photography at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Second Chances at the Aspen Art Museum; What is a Photograph? at the International Center of Photography, New York; and Land Marks at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. His work can be found in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Guggenheim Collection, NY; Brooklyn Museum, New York; Art Gallery of South Wales, Sydney, Australia; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond; Cincinnati Art Museum; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Royal Danish Library, National Museum of Photography, Copenhagen; Denver Art Museum, Colorado; High Museum, Georgia; Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan; and the Columbus Museum of Art, among others. Matthew Brandt lives and works in Los Angeles.