Gallery B, 2007
neon tube, plexiglass
13" x 24" x 4”
Untitled (Blue Door #1), 2007
acrylic on canvas
43" x 21"
Untitled (Blue Door #2), 2007
acrylic on canvas
43" x 21"
Untitled (Blue Door #3), 2007
acrylic on canvas
43" x 21"
Untitled (Blue Door #4), 2007
acrylic on canvas
43" x 21"
Untitled (Blue Door #5), 2007
acrylic on canvas
43" x 21"
Untitled (Blue Door #6), 2007
acrylic on canvas
43" x 21"
Untitled (Blue Door #8), 2007
acrylic on canvas
43" x 21"
Untitled (Blue Door #9), 2007
acrylic on canvas
43" x 21"
Untitled (Blue Door #10), 2007
acrylic on canvas
43" x 21"
Untitled (Blue Door #11), 2007
acrylic on canvas
43" x 21"
Gallery Paule Anglim is pleased to announce an exhibition of new paintings by MASASHI MATSUMOTO.
Matsumoto will present a room of ten blue paintings of doors, all of the same dimension. The artist gives his show the name “Gallery B”, and a blue neon sign mounted high and central to the installation announces the title.
Matsumoto is known for his paintings of doors, an art practice and subject to which he has strictly adhered for over 25 years. His paintings address geometric abstraction and monochrome minimalism, but offer equal time to simple realism where the essence, observed yet fairly objective, is represented. His doors open to many and varied readings, and are probably most accurately described as conceptual.
The late San Franciscan art critic Thomas Albright wrote on the occasion of Matsumoto’s Adaline Kent Award show at the San Francisco Art Institute in 1983:
… the word “door” is much like the word “painting” – capable of innumerable meanings, suggestions and associations, and at the same time only itself. Formalist critics of an earlier time never tired of expounding on the philosophical intricacies of this paradox; Matsumoto simply points to it, with a deference and humor that suggest both Dada and Zen, which may well be the same thing.”
Matsumoto studied at the San Francisco Art Institute and developed his art practice in both painting and performance in the 1970’s. He has had multiple exhibitions of his work at Gallery Paule Anglim.
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