Wax House of Wax, September 13 – October 25, 2014. Steven Wolf, San Francisco, CA.

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Macrame Pot Hangers, 24 ¼ X 19 ¼”, collage from found printed materials in artist´s frame, 2012
Dark Energy, 24 ¼ X 18 ¼”, collage from found printed materials in artist´s frame, 2014
                   Swan, 64 X 42 X 20″ burl slabs, wood, steel, Masonite, glass, plastic, beeswax, 2014   Cell, 230 1/2 X 76 1/2″, xerox print, 2014
Chrome, 13 ⅝ X 11 3⁄16″, cut paper collage from found printed materials, 2014
Silver Pipe, 24 ¼ X 18 ¼”, collage from found printed materials in artist´s frame, 2014
Black and Red, 13 ⅝ X 10 ⅜”, cut paper collage from found printed materials, 2014
Gnocchi, 13 ⅝ X 10 ⅝”, cut paper collage from found printed materials, 2014
X, 57 X 48 X 30″, burl slabs, wood, chip board, plastic, spray paint, beeswax, 2014
Space, 24 ⅜ X 35 ½”, collage from found printed materials in artist´s frame, 2014
Mass, 55 X 55 X 40″, burl slabs, Plexiglas, plastic, wood, metal, cardboard, beeswax, 2014
Black Bars, 24 ¼ X 18 ¼, collage from found printed materials in artist´s frame, 2013
Forming, 120 X 42 X 61, plastic, Plexiglas, glass, mirrors, cut paper, ceramic, unfired clay, silicone, wax, talc, lenticular photographs, holograms, wood, tape, rubber bands, linen, concrete, steel, elastic, books, magazines, airbrush paint, ink jet prints, transparencies, posters, wallpaper, 2012-2014

 

Matt Borruso
Wax House of Wax

September 13–October 25, 2014
Opening Reception: Saturday, September 13, 6–9pm

Steven Wolf Fine Arts
2747A 19th Street
San Francisco, CA 94110

Steven Wolf Fine Arts presents Wax House of Wax, an exhibition of new work by San Francisco based
artist Matt Borruso. The sculptures, collages, prints and paintings Borruso has constructed for this
exhibition gather numerous disparate elements to form an uncanny personal universe.

In the main space, slabs of polished burl are paired with plastic reproductions of ears, candles and
scythes. These precarious arrangements are supported by chipboard table bases and Plexiglas tubes.
Surrounding them are images of the fantastic and domestic: macramé pot hangers, latex monster film
props, feather boas, chrome furniture. Pages from how-to photography books and European cooking
magazines have been incised and effaced, while posters bearing the devotion and abuse of past fans
have been reoriented, their figures redacted and their seams amplified.

In the second room numerous objects are set on a single table: some found, others have been
mechanically cast in black wax. Magazines lay open, the two-dimensional images on their pages sliced
apart and remade as sculptural components. Replicated in mirrors, their display is both vertical and
horizontal, drooping and laid out flat. Finally they enter the reaching non-space of multiplied
reflections.