PhxArt talks with Matthew Ritchie

Описание: New-York based Matthew Ritchie, an accomplished contemporary artist, seeks to describe the intangible links between information and collective thought through his practice. Since the early 1990s, Ritchie (b. 1964, London) developed an installation and painting practice drawing from the vocabularies of science, sociology, anthropology, mythology and the history of art, with the goal of representing the entire universe. In his paintings, installations, wall drawings, light boxes, sculptures, projections, artists books, and performances, he describes systems, ideas, structures of knowledge and belief, and their subsequent interpretations in a kind of cerebral web that makes tangible and recognizable ephemeral and abstract theories of information and time. Ritchie has collaborated with scientists, computer programmers, and architects to realize his large-scale installation works like Something Like Day (2004), a new acquisition to the Phoenix Art Museum Collection. The lightbox display boasts a holograph-like effect; as the visitor walks alongside and in front of it, naked figures metamorphize into skeletons and vice versa depending on which way you approach the work. Ritchie earned a BFA from Camberwell College of Arts in 1986 and attended Boston University.

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