Date/Time
Date(s) - October 4, 2024 - October 30, 2024
10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Location
Directions Gallery
Categories
Uncertain Intermedia Artworks by Matt Sage 2024
Opening Reception: Friday, October 4, 5-7p.m.
Closing & Artist Talk: Monday, November 4, 4-5p.m. in room F101, Visual Arts Building
“Behold this compost, behold it well … it grows such sweetness from such corruptions.”
In his poem “This Compost” Walt Whitman reflects on the Earth’s slowness, its patience, and how it can consistently consume and decompose what is presented to it, turning that rot and morass into tender berries, lush grass, felt later gently tickling his naked body and coating his tongue. A study of our planet, a marvel, and its amorous engine of transforming decay into pleasure. What a place to make a home!
DECOMPOSER is an installation and multichannel composition for several assemblages. A constellation of humor, garbage, didactics, cut grass, paint chips, and new media. A scraping for nutrients through manipulating decaying materials; composing a domestic quandary while things are seemingly rotting. A toast to drinking in sour fecundity and stubborn joy when dwelling in this late-stage tremulation.
Matt Sage is an intermedia artist and educator living on the Colorado Front Range. He’s shown work and performed – both solo and in collaboration and groups – at many galleries and institutions including The Whitney Museum, MoMA, MoMA PS1, Art Institute of Chicago, Hyde Park Art Center, and Geffen Contemporary. His musical work has been released by the acclaimed RVNG intl label, as well as being self released on Sage’s own Cached.Media imprint. He teaches in the department of Art and Art History at Colorado State University.