Mathew Cerletty
Mathew Cerletty (born 1980, Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is an artist who lives and works in New York City.[1]
Cerletty studied at Boston University graduating with a BFA in 2002.
His work has been exhibited at galleries and museums including Whitney Museum of American Art and the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego. He is represented by Office Baroque in Brussels, Belgium.
In a 2008 article in the magazine Interview, Christopher Bollen described Cerletty as an artist who "could have remained his generation's premier portrait artist."[2]
He applies hyper-realistic precision to the most banal and unremarkable subjects that populate his life–from corporate logos, to cinder block walls, to Ikea furniture. In the vein of surrealists like René Magritte, his non-sequitur paintings present the familiar as peculiar. He often achieves this peculiarity with hard to pinpoint incongruencies. Although Cerletty approaches his images with a tongue-in-cheek humor, there is an underlying sincerity in his attention to detail.
References
- ↑ "Saatchi Gallery - Mathew Cerletty's Biography". Saatchi Gallery. Retrieved 20 January 2016.
- ↑ Christopher Bollen (November 28, 2008). "ART - Mathew Cerletty By Christopher Bollen". Interview (Brant Publications). Retrieved 20 January 2016.