Matty Byloos: New paintings

Sandroni Rey is pleased to present an exhibition of new work by Matty Byloos. This will be Byloos' first solo exhibition with Sandroni Rey.

Byloos' latest series, New Paintings, is inspired by the homes that were removed during the Los Angeles International Airport expansion that occurred during the mid-1970s. Byloos focuses on architecture; specifically of his native southern California and using a variety of source materials his paintings aim to capture the homes in a transitional moment.

Boarded up, vacant and completely drained of functionality, these homes allow Byloos to investigate ideas of photography's ability to reconstruct memory and how painting might be a more appropriate vehicle for representing the mercurial qualities of distant experience. Like a recycled vellum manuscript, Byloos' paintings embody the idea of a palimpsest. The homes no longer occupy any tangible architectural space, rather they exist as portraits of houses already lost to the past and have already been "scraped clean" for new use. Obscured by shadows and built up through suggestive layers, the paintings convey a ghostly and mysterious air: seen but nonetheless intangible. Furthermore, Byloos' paintings push this metaphor of architectural palimpsest into a more general sense of understanding the complex writing of Los Angeles' own architectural history and its constant revision rivaled against its own historical context.

Matty Byloos currently lives and works in Los Angeles. He received his MFA from ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena, CA.

Matthew Byloos
New paintings