November 2010
La Petite Mort Gallery Presents
MATTHEW DAYLER
New Paintings, Drawings, Video & Mural
November 5 – 28, 2010
Vernissage Friday Nov 5 / 7-10 PM
Tunes by Big Mac Daddy
Proudly sponsored by
CKCU 93.1 FM, MAMBO & KINKI
Artist Statement:
” I am interested in Ideas of assimilation, hetro-normative activities and the perceptions that are presented by homosexual fantasies that have crossed over to mainstream culture. These ideas are the foundation for my current work.
I use my images as billboards for my thoughts and ideas on our social, cultural, and political identities. I comment on these from a gay male perspective.
My work promotes individualism through embracing elements of graffiti culture, popular news media, music and sports. I use drawing, printmaking, video, photography and paint to create my work.
The most important influences on our popular culture have spawned from the underground. These persona are representations of defenders of this underground. These characters are presented like Byzantine icons with self-inflicted individuality.
I am interested in using the self as a billboard for my thoughts and ideas on our social, cultural, and political identities I comment on life from a gay male perspective. My work promotes individualism, through embracing elements of dj culture, graffiti, popular news media, gay life and fashion. I use drawing, printmaking, video, photography, and paint to create my work. I reference gay culture, self-portraiture and gender stereotypes in a vibrantly iconic, pop fashion.
I use masks as a symbol of rebellion, disguise, sexual play, and as a way to neutralize identity through sameness. The most important influences on our popular culture have spawned from some sort of underground. These self-persona are representations of defenders of this underground. These characters are presented like Byzantine icons, with self-inflicted individuality. I see these characters as the future renegades or protectors of authenticity”. – Matthew Dayler, 2010
BIO:
Matthew Dayler was born and raised in Hamilton Ontario Canada. He creates self-portraits and images of mature men in drawings, prints, photography and video, which are inspired by popular culture and issues of identity. Dayler?s work centers on a wide variety of contemporary imagery relating to the self in juxtaposition with music, graffiti, gay culture, and sports.
Matthew Dayler?s work has been exhibited at the Telfair Museum of Art in Savannah, Georgia, The Brooks Museum in Memphis Tennessee, and Galerie Edition Schedler in Zurich, Switzerland, among others. In 2009 he had a solo exhibition of drawings at Galerie La Petite Mort in Ottawa Ontario, and included in various group exhibitions most recently in Miami, NYC and LA. Dayler lives in Cincinnati, Ohio and currently teaches/lectures at the Art Academy of Cincinnati.
EDUCATION:
2000/01 Memphis College of Art MFA Studio
1998/99 Art Academy of Cincinnati BFA Printmaking
1995/98 Ontario College of Art and Design Toronto, Ontario
1993/95 Trent University Peterborough, Ontario
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2011 PAC Gallery Cincinnati Ohio
2010 Fight LPM Gallery (November) Ottawa, Ontario
2010 Beyond the Village University of
Dayton, OH
2010 Assimilators Columbus Roy G Biv Gallery
2009 Uber Vati Ottawa LPM Gallery
2008 Matthew Dayler and Friends Cincinnati
Creative Gallery
2008 The Avengers The Carnegie Cincinnati, OH
Visual and Performing Arts Center
Thank you,
Guy Berube, director