Photo: Molly Glentzer Matt Kleberg, a New York based, Texas native and a Pratt Institute graduate, makes paintings that pull from Cubism, Fauvism and various related movements to produce a colorful balance of directional forces. His work borrows from architectural and ornamental references such as altars, theatre sets and stages, all spaces that frame specific actions and actors, suggesting an interest in performativity, whether ritual or theatrical. Out of a practice formerly concerned with figuration, Kleberg’s recent work offers the absence of any depicted actor. Charged spaces and the presence of the hand imply the possibility of the figure, and, by extension, implicate the viewer in their own embodiment. Bright colors and repetitive marks have the hum of the rhapsodic, but the wonkiness evokes something decidedly human. Interview with Matt Kleberg (http://www.paintingisdead.com/matt-kleberg.html) "...[the] idea of expectation and disappointment goes back to the form. I love this idea. These paintings are like frames within frames within frames within frames. There’s a lot of framing. There are stripes. Everything is rhythmic. And some have curtains drawn back and everything is vibrating into the middle… and the thing is empty. But those empty spaces are also the only place where any kind of illusion happens. They are very flat paintings. The illusion is kind of fleeting. It always collapses, but that is what paintings forever have done. They give us these moments of magic where this flat space becomes another world. So on one hand those spaces are empty and on the other hand, that’s the only place where the painting magic happens." (http://www.painters-table.com/link/painting-is-dead/matt-kleberg-interview) undefined

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