Matt Saunders Merges Painting and Photo in New Ways, Yielding Images That Read Like Ghostly Transmissions—See Them Here

MATT SAUNDERS

“Poems of Our Climate”
Marian Goodman, London

What the Gallery Says: “In Poems of Our Climate, Saunders presents a series of new oil on chiffon paintings, copper-plate etchings and photographs, along with a large-scale animation installation. The exhibition largely represents Saunders’s continued interest in painting, exploring new techniques and manipulations of the medium. In his photography practice, Saunders uses a derivation of the photogram technique, a familiar and oft-used process for the artist. In this experimental and time-based image-making process, he passes light through the fabric of painted linen, thus creating an ‘exposure’ onto photographic paper.”

Why It’s Worth a Look: The Berlin- and Cambridge, Massachusetts-based artist’s debut at Marian Goodman in London offers a chance to experience a version of a new, five-channel installation Saunders has installed last November across two galleries at the Saint Louis Art Museum (until February 2). But the wildly interesting and inventive new painting-photograms are worth a look all by themselves.

What It Looks Like: 

Matt Saunders, Jane Double Profile (2017). ©Matt Saunders, courtesy the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, Paris & London.

Matt Saunders, London #5 (2017). ©Matt Saunders, courtesy the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, Paris & London.

Matt Saunders, London #1 (2017). ©Matt Saunders, courtesy the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, Paris & London.

Matt Saunders, Bath (2017). ©Matt Saunders, courtesy the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, Paris & London.

“Poems of Our Climate” is on view through February 17, 2018.

Marian Goodman Gallery is located at 5-8 Lower John Street, London W1F 9DY.

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