Charles Matton: Selected Works

July 1, 2008, New York - New Acquisitions, (July 10 through August 22, 2008) will showcase thirty works new to the gallery in the last year, and will include large and small-scale paintings, dramatic sculpture and important drawings by Forum Gallery roster artists and twentieth century and contemporary masters. Featured artists include Steven Assael, Ilya Bolotwsky, Eli Bornstein, Charles Burchfield, Robert Cottingham, Philip Evergood, Paul Fenniak, Sam Francis, Linden Frederick, Gregory Gillespie, Robert Gwathmey, Edward Hopper, Holly Lane, Michael Leonard, Alan Magee, G. Daniel Massad, Odd Nerdrum, Larry Rivers, Brian Rutenberg, Raphael Soyer, Bill Vuksanovich, Max Weber, Tom Wesselmann, Francisco Zúñiga, Cybèle Young, and Lisa Bartolozzi.

Concurrently, running from July 10 through September 6, 2008 Forum Gallery will offer the rare opportunity to see a separate exhibition of eleven of renowned Paris-based artist Charles Matton's box constructions, each an exquisitely detailed miniature recreation of a real or imagined location. Matton has said of his works: "I create two kinds of boxes: those whose purpose is to recreate an atmosphere that has delighted me, a memory whose existence I wish to perpetuate; and the more objective pieces that are the result of a detailed examination of the "realistic truth" of a certain place." Painstakingly crafted from wood, mirrors, moving pictures and wallpaper, depictions of the studios of a Classical Sculptor, of libraries and of a pianist performing Debussy will be on view alongside Matton’s Hommages to James Joyce, Edward Hopper, and Lucian Freud.

PRESS CONTACT: Rachel Feinberg

Forum Gallery will be open throughout July and August, Monday through Friday, 10 am to 5:30pm. A selection of works by Forum Gallery artists is on view at Forum 57 at the Four Seasons Hotel, New York, Monday through Saturday. For more information please contact the gallery.

Location: New York 4th Floor

Charles Matton: Selected Works