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Matthew Dols

Matthew Dols

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      • 2017-current / Prude Slut Bitch
      • 2015-2017 / re:de:construction
      • 2012-2017 / Sentimentalist (portraits)
      • 2010-2013 / Sentimentalist (porn)
      • 2009–2010 / Gist
      • 2005–2006 / Collages
      • 1998–2001 / a look inside
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      • 2010–2012 / 20 Days over 20 Years
      • 2009–2010 / Longing Landscapes
      • 2002–2004 / Ironic detachment
      • 1998–2001 / When I tell the truth, people think I am lying
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Morrigan

Unique distressed archival pigment print on Epson hot press paper with acrylic paint, gel medium, and silver leaf
40 x 40 inches
2016


I desire to understand how life works. I want to know how a computer works, so I take it apart. I want to know how a person works, I take images of them apart.

I try different techniques of deconstructing the person, some natural others mechanical. I figure out certain things that work well in the process of taking them apart, while in others the process itself destroys the image and I need to reconstruct it in a different way, kind of like I lost some of the parts while taking it apart. And now I need to rebuild something new from what I have left.

When I was a child I used to take take things apart in order to figure out how they work. When I was in college I began studying psychology in order to try to take people apart and figure out how they work. In my artwork I am taking apart images of a beautiful person in order to better understand how and ‘beauty’ works.

‘Morrigan’ / Unique distressed archival pigment print on Epson hot press paper with acrylic paint, gel medium, and silver leaf / 40 x 40 inches / 2016
detail of ‘Morrigan’ / Unique distressed archival pigment print on Epson hot press paper with acrylic paint, gel medium, and silver leaf / 40 x 40 inches / 2016
detail of ‘Morrigan’ / Unique distressed archival pigment print on Epson hot press paper with acrylic paint, gel medium, and silver leaf / 40 x 40 inches / 2016
detail of ‘Morrigan’ / Unique distressed archival pigment print on Epson hot press paper with acrylic paint, gel medium, and silver leaf / 40 x 40 inches / 2016