Amused Medusa by Matthew Bakkom
Amused Medusa is an exhibition of new work on paper by Matthew Bakkom featuring:
...tenderising ingredients, Aristotelian retaliations, supersonic percussion, isometric eroticism, rayless slayers, assistant satanists, interlaced credential, nameless salesman, windless swindles, stencil clients, cheater teacher, cruelest lectures, monster mentors, impure umpire, germinal maligner, sacred cadres, sporadic picadors, cosmic comics, relapsed pleaders, dishonest hedonists, American Cinerama, Germanic creaming, unsoiled delusion, insatiable banalities, Chelsea leaches discover divorces, busted debuts, resinous neurosis, oceanic cocaine, trance nectar, sauciest suitcase, bluest sublet, nectarous courtesan, striptease tapestries, silence license, baritone obtainer, partitioned trepidation, colonialist oscillation, aspirant partisan. leader dealer, promise imposer, sultanic lunatics, senator treason, pirates parties, tearless stealers, slyest styles, and hustling sunlight.
These works were produced over the last year in Rotterdam, Minneapolis, and New Orleans, using a set of children’s stencils to extend the artist’s abiding engagement with anagramic phenomena.