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Matt Lipps – Horses

Jan. 20th to Feb. 16th
Reception for the Artists: Saturday, Jan. 20th, from 6 to 9pm

The Office is pleased to present Horses, new photographs and sculpture by LA-based artist Matt Lipps. Marking the artists first solo exhibition, Lipps takes to familiar materials with unfamiliar subjects—working in large-format photography and low-tech sculptural forms, he seeks to intertwine the two practices in an elaborate narrative using horses as his main protagonists.

“The project started when I’d heard that my estranged Father had ‘Googled’ my name to find out more about my life. So, in turn, I ‘Googled’ him and found he was working on a Biography about Anna Sewell—the author of Black Beauty,” said Lipps. So begins the rhizomatic structure of his endeavor as the artist weaves together threads from his own personal biography; his projection onto the character of Black Beauty; the symbolic, riderless horse Black Jack—a double-entendre, also referring to the Black Plague; the AIDS pandemic, once referred to as a “Gay Plague”; and, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse—all set to the backdrop of Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal (seen as a proverbial cruising ground—for Father and Son, Death and Antonius Block, and/or two men seeking mutual pleasure).
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Matt Lipps received his MFA from University of California, Irvine in 2004. He has been apart of such group exhibitions as Photography Unbound (Robert V. Fullerton Museum, San Bernardino, 2006); Organica (enView Gallery, Long Beach, 2006); The Libertine Society presents: The Nature of Excess (L2kontemporary, Los Angeles, 2006); Log Cabin (Artists Space, New York, 2005) organized by Jeffrey Uslip; Rendering Gender (Truman State University Art Gallery, Missouri, 2004); among many others. Lipps lives and works in Los Angeles, CA