By dealing with class in his art, Bollinger touches on the strain infecting the current “us and them” situation in the United States.
Matt Bollinger
Matt Bollinger’s Working-Class Elegy
Bollinger is a major artist chronicling a substantial sector of American life.
Visions of Home, from Dream Memories to Trump Country
The disparity between what we expect from domesticity and what lurks beneath the surface generates a finely wrought tension that coils throughout this show.
12 Revelatory Exhibitions from 2017
Each of these exhibitions showed me something I had not seen before.
From Interference Paint to Prompt-Driven Portraits, a Trip to Dumbo Open Studios
Standouts from some of the artists’ studios open to the public last weekend in the Brooklyn neighborhood.
End of the Road: Matt Bollinger at Zürcher Gallery
In his third and best exhibition, Matt Bollinger: Independence, MO, at Zürcher Gallery, the artist continues to remember and invent aspects of his youth, family and friends, while growing up in and around Independence, Missouri, a suburb of Kansas City.
8 Figurative Painters in an Atemporal World
Recurrent throughout 8 Painters are stylings on past painterly marks and movements, not so much placed in quotations as absorbed into a work’s facture.