Carlos Hermosilla Álverez and Colin Matthes: Echoing Concerns

This gallery featured the work of Colin Matthes (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) who makes bold drawn, painted, and printed images that often mirror his environment while also inciting awareness of current socio-political causes. Matthes examines printmaking as a democratized art form that was once preferred as a means of easily and economically duplicating and disseminating images to the public. Though Matthes’ work references these goals of traditional printmaking, he deftly combines media to address a contemporary tendency toward pastiche and bricolage – a realistic representation of the ways we digest imagery today.

Photography by Kevin Miyazaki.