Justin Matherly The significant and difficult run deep and do not flow on the surface (The beautiful and useful are not to be grasped at a glance)
2011
Glass reinforced concrete, ambulatory equipment
102 x 81.28 x 48.26 cm
Justin Matherly All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare (Champion sound)
2011
Glass reinforced concrete, ambulatory equipment
121 x 63.50 x 48.26 cm
Justin Matherly As long as its truth and purity remain inviolate and no blasphemous rationality dares approach its sacred confines (Guilelessly open and deeply hidden)
2011
Glass reinforced concrete, ambulatory equipment
97.79 x 57.15 x 48.26 cm
Justin Matherly's BIOGRAPHY
Born in 1972, West Islip, NY
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011 Readjusting my commitment to a greater legibility, or substance thinking and substance extended, New York
2010 To reveal the logic of production and to set forth the technique of methods of struggle as a living, flowing process, without any unbreakable rules except that of having an ultimate goal, devices which are varied and formed at every given moment depending on the conditions and correlations of forces in a given phase of struggle; I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. The will to a system is a lack of integrity, Solo project with Bureau,Secteur Lafayette, FIAC, Paris France
Would that You were the last of the filth which You had to remove / why does your flesh shit?, Marginal Utility, Philadelphia
2009 Be So Kind As To Dilate Upon The Mechanics Of The Thing (We came more and more to feel that, motion being inherent in matter, the prime mover exist ed only as an illusion, and that all that exists essentially having to be in motion, the motor was useless), Dispatch, New York, NY
2008 Let other people observe you happy, and they will rush to the same road you have traced for them. DISPATCH: Present tissima, Turin, Italy
The Assistants’ Dispatch, New York, NY
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011 Group Show, Johann Koenig Gallery, Berlin Germany
4 Pillars, Bureau @ NADA Hudson, Hudson NY
The Bridgehampton Biennial, Cur. Bob Nickas, Sagaponack, NY
Re:Empire, Team Gallery @ 47 Wooster, New York NY
Sculpture, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
2010 Looking Back, The Fifth Annual White Columns Annual, Cur. Bob Nickas, White Columns, NY
In Practice Projects, Sculpture Center, Long Island City, NY
Wait For Me at the Bottom of the Pool, Cur. Bob Nickas, Jose Martos, Sagaponack, NY
Habitat (Some Pleasures and Discomforts of Domestic Life), Cur. Beatrice Gross,
Twenty First / Twenty First Gallery, New York, NY
Independent w/ Dispatch, New York, NY
2009 The Living and the Dead, Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York NY
High, Low and In Between), Jorg Grimm Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
I know nothing of the weather when I know it is either raining or not raining. Pacific Northwest College of Art,Feldman Gallery, Portland, OR
2008 Un Balance, Jack Shainman Gallery New York, NY
2007 Loot from Wars of Nationalist Aggression Between the 18th and 71st Parallels(1981- 1994)’ Gavin Brown’s enterprise @ Passerby; New York, NY
Wu Tang / googolplex Show, Gavin Brown’s enterprise, Passerby, NY
The Great Improvisation Has Begun, Hunter College Times Sq. Gallery, NY
New Insights, Art Chicago, curated by Susanne Ghez, Chicago, IL
Poster Project, curated by Devon Costello and Ilya Lipkin Kantor/Feuer Window,
Participant Inc. and Printed Matter, New York, NY
2006 Everything Beautiful and Noble is the Result of Reason and Calculation curated by Howie
Chen and Gabrielle Giattino, EFA Gallery, New York, NY
2005 MAs select MFAs, Hunter College Times Square Gallery, New York, NY
2004 Scarab, Project Room, Philadelphia, PA
2003 Window on Broad, Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, University of the Arts,
Philadelphia, PA
2002 Greater Philadelphia, The Galleries at Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA