Last to Know by Matthew Brannon
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2009
Vinyl on wall
Patrons: Baryn, Daniel, and Jonathan Futa
Matthew Brannon says that the dynamic architecture of the Hamilton Building presented a particular challenge for his installation. Like his art, the building disrupts viewers’ expectations.
I was having these reoccurring dreams that had to do with knives and being cut. I started to just play with these images of knives. They would hopefully function very decoratively but have that tension that would go along with them, too. I always wanted them to be quite large, so you had a physical relationship to them.”
Brannon’s Last to Know is located in the Newman Overlook, a landing between levels two and three in the Hamilton Building’s atrium.
© Matthew Brannon. Photos by Jeff Wells.
Meet the Artist
Matthew Brannon was born in 1971 in St. Maries, Idaho. He received his BA from University of California, Los Angeles in 1995 and his MFA in 1999 from Columbia University in New York, where he continues to live and work. Brannon has had recent solo exhibitions at Gio Marconi, Milan, Friedrich Petzel, New York, and The Approach, London. He participated in the 2008 Turin Triennial curated by Daniel Birnbaum, the 2008 Whitney Biennial, as well as being featured in group shows at the ICA in London and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. A survey show of his work, with an accompanying catalog entitled To Say the Very Least, took place at the Art Gallery of York University in Toronto in 2008. He is represented by Friedrich Petzel Gallery in New York and David Kordansky Gallery in Los Angeles. Brannon is perhaps best known for his letterpress prints [editions of one], which combine text and image. The subject matter of the prints often concerns what Brannon calls “The Price of Admission”— the compromises and contortions we suffer to achieve what it is we believe we want.
Photo of the artist by Marc Piscotty.
Recent Work
Switching Positions, 2006. Courtesy Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York.
The Price of Admission, 2007. Courtesy Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York.
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