| PRESS RELEASE :: The Office - an art space
Matt Lipps | HORSES
20 January - 16 February 2007
The Office is pleased to present Horses, new photographs and sculpture by LA-based artist Matt Lipps.
Marking the artists first solo exhibition, Lipps takes to familiar materials with unfamiliar subjects - working in large-format
photography and low-tech sculptural forms, he seeks to intertwine the two practices in an elaborate narrative using horses
as his main protagonists."The project started when I’d heard that my estranged Father had 'Googled' my name to find
out more about my life. So, in turn, I 'Googled' him and found he was working on a Biography about Anna Sewell - the author
of Black Beauty," said Lipps. So begins the rhizomatic structure of his endeavor as the artist weaves together threads from
his own personal biography; his projection onto the character of Black Beauty; the symbolic, riderless horse Black
Jack - a double-entendre, also referring to the Black Plague; the AIDS pandemic, once referred to as a "Gay Plague";
and, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse - all set to the backdrop of Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal (seen as a
proverbial cruising ground - for Father and Son, Death and Antonius Block, and/or two men seeking mutual pleasure).
The Office - An Art Space | CHRIS HOFF, Director
Huntington Beach, CA
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