A solo exhibition of new paintings by Mikiya Matsuda, whose works ATM last presented in Painting, 2002.

Matsuda’s paintings include crayon-rubbed screws and pulled linen over decorative linen prints. Where screws stretch linens taut on wood panels, ripples, peaks and valleys appear in numerous succession. Matsuda plays upon the fanciful metaphors of luxury home furnishing lines by American and French designers Donna Karan, Ralph Lauren and Yves Delorme. The title installation, “Foreplay,” will re-arrange weekly.

Matsuda also juxtaposes his paintings on board with minimal paintings on canvas made from the impress markings of screw heads. Lucio Pozzi has described Matsuda’s work as “nearer the Zen art of the past and [echoing] the contemplative Time-Rituals of On Kawara more than any modernist procedure.”

Matsuda was born in Kagoshima, Japan in 1949, and received a B.A. in Economics from St. Paul’s University, Tokyo, in 1972. He began exhibiting at P.S.1 in 1980 and has since continued to exhibit, perform and publish in New York.