Macrame Pot Hangers, 24 ¼ X 19 ¼”, collage from found printed materials in artist´s frame, 2012Dark 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, 2014Chrome, 13 ⅝ X 11 3⁄16″, cut paper collage from found printed materials, 2014Silver Pipe, 24 ¼ X 18 ¼”, collage from found printed materials in artist´s frame, 2014Black and Red, 13 ⅝ X 10 ⅜”, cut paper collage from found printed materials, 2014Gnocchi, 13 ⅝ X 10 ⅝”, cut paper collage from found printed materials, 2014X, 57 X 48 X 30″, burl slabs, wood, chip board, plastic, spray paint, beeswax, 2014Space, 24 ⅜ X 35 ½”, collage from found printed materials in artist´s frame, 2014Mass, 55 X 55 X 40″, burl slabs, Plexiglas, plastic, wood, metal, cardboard, beeswax, 2014Black Bars, 24 ¼ X 18 ¼, collage from found printed materials in artist´s frame, 2013Forming, 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.