Matthew Palladino & Eric Shaw: Busy Life In Distant Worlds

EVENT DESCRIPTION

AISHONANZUKA is please to announce a new exhibition “Busy Life In Distant Worlds”, a two artists group exhibition by Matthew Palladino and Eric Shaw from USA.

ABOUT THE ARTIST / ORGANISER

Born in 1985 in San Francisco, lives and works in New York, USA. Matthew Palladino began his career producing watercolor paintings on paper, transforming a stereotypically staid medium with large scale representations of colorful fabrics and gradated abstractions. Influenced by the graphic images present in the cartoons and comics of his youth, Palladino's work adopts similar grid-like arrangements, acerbic comedy, and forced perspectival flattening. In response to a frustration with the "illusion of painting," Palladino began pushing the boundaries of his practice off the page by creating plaster and enamel casts of fruits, chocolate figurines, and other quotidian objects. Though he employs simple patterns and images, Palladino skillfully arranges his compositions to enhance spatial complexities much like the work of John Wesley which rewards repeated viewing and extended contemplation.

Eric Shaw. Born in 1983 in Connecticut, lives and works in New York, USA. His works are inspired by various graphic designs, logos and signs seen all over the city, and his work is a creation of images he has seen, which he combines and continuously alter and reconstruct. He transforms the sceneries we see every day into a hybrid abstract expression by moving between reality and digital and repeatedly moderating the urban environment.