Matt Greene, Surrender
Deitch Projects (76 Grand St)
Soho
76 Grand Street, 212-343-7300
November 9 - December 23, 2006
Opening: Thursday, November 9, 6 - 9PM
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Matt Greene. Courtesy of Deitch Projects.Known for his ethereal landscapes of fleshy fungi and bushy bombshells, Matt Greene continues in this series an exploration of his favorite shelves in the library: horticulture, vintage pornography, horror films, fairy tales, 19th Century Symbolist art, and of course the history of Modernism. These disparate interests--and the weighty themes of gender, sexuality, and epistemology that accompany them--Greene masterfully approaches in a hallucinatory, visionary manner allowing them to come together in phantasmagoric splendor on his canvases