Matt Greene. Courtesy of Deitch Projects.
Deitch Projects (76 Grand St)
Soho
76 Grand Street, 212-343-7300
November 9 - December 23, 2006
Opening: Thursday, November 9, 6 - 9PM
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Known for his ethereal landscapes of fleshy fungi and bushy bombshells, Matt Greene continues in this series an exploration of his favorite shelves in the library: horticulture, vintage pornography, horror films, fairy tales, 19th Century Symbolist art, and of course the history of Modernism. These disparate interests--and the weighty themes of gender, sexuality, and epistemology that accompany them--Greene masterfully approaches in a hallucinatory, visionary manner allowing them to come together in phantasmagoric splendor on his canvases