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Matthew Schlagbaum: Smiling through gritted teeth and Victoria Reynolds: Médaillons de Corpos

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Saturday, 11 March 2017 to Saturday, 22 April 2017
Opening: 
Saturday, 11 March 2017 - 5:00pm

Bert Green Fine Art presents

Matthew Schlagbaum
Smiling through gritted teeth

In the Project Room:
Victoria Reynolds
Médaillons de Corpos

March 11 - April 22 2017

Opening Reception
Saturday March 11 5-8 pm

Artist’s Talk
Saturday April 15 4 pm

Matthew Schlagbaum unites the media of sculpture, photography, and paint to depict metaphors for oppressive social structures that masquerade as universal ideals. Mainstream concepts of happiness, and their resulting recommended lifestyles, are exposed as methods of systematic social control. His images and sculptural objects are sometimes drained of color, viewed from behind, or seen as manipulated emotional and physical states of being that express the profound exclusion experienced by those who are not the intended audience.

Victoria Reynolds uses meat as a primary decorative motif, playfully applying it’s visceral qualities to the surface of the painting and the surrounding frame. There is an uneasy tension between the understanding of flesh as food, and our self-identification of it; her conflation of desire, mortality, viscerality, and the survival instinct is a powerful source of aesthetic fascination.

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+1312-434-7544
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Bert Green Fine Art
8 S Michigan Ave Suite 620
Chicago IL 60603

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