Matt Ernst

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Website: http://www.matternst.org

Matt Ernst doesn’t roam the streets of New York marking territory with his tag. Rather, Matt Ernst is an artist who lets the city streets tag him. In his most recent work, layering his canvases with found materials from stickers to advertisements, to drawings ripped right out of his own sketchbooks, Ernst brings the superfluity of visual information out of the city and into the studio, where he can scrutinize its impact on our evolution as a species. Ernst draws from Freud’s school of thought, ever curious, albeit a skeptical curiosity, about where our illusions may take us, where they may leave us.
Leah Satlin, Format Magazine Dec., 2007

Categories: Urban, Painting, Mixed Media, Graphics / Illustration, Graffiti, Environmental, Drawing, Contemporary / Modern, Animation / Comics, Visual Arts, Multi-Discipline