Event Listing - Galleries
Sun May 31 - Sun Oct 11

Deborah Grant Bacon, Egg, Toast in Lard / MATRIX 228


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Location
Date and Time
UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
2626 Bancroft Way
Berkeley, CA 94720 map
cross street: between Bowditch and College
district: Berkeley

Sun May 31 (11am)
Wed Jun 3 (11am)
Thu Jun 4 (11am)
Fri Jun 5 (11am)
Sat Jun 6 (11am)

Description
Deborah Grant’s paintings are dense—quite literally loaded with obsessive code-like mark-making, collaged and drawn symbolic representations, and flat silhouettes, and with myriad personal, cultural, and art-historical references. Her work is a kind of hallucinatory exercise, sampling across time and genre to connect ideas based in history and personal experience with political and social issues of the present. Grant’s distinctive and highly graphic visual style marries aspects of abstraction and illustration in a restrained palette of black, white, and red. She is influenced as much by pop-culture sources like vintage Life magazine photography, comic books, MAD magazine, and pulp images as by art-historical referents like Jean-Michel Basquiat, Bill Traylor, and Jacob Lawrence.

Grant’s MATRIX exhibition will premiere in its entirety the long-term project Bacon, Egg, Toast in Lard...