Saturday October 12, 7pm ET
Artist Talk: Matt Town
In conversation with Matthew Lax
In Person & Live-streamed
Free admission
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Microscope is very pleased to present an artist talk with LA-based artist Matt Town on the closing day of his solo exhibition “Coral.” Town will be joined for the in-person conversation by artist and writer Matthew Lax, who lives between LA & New York. The talk will also be live-streamed on our site on this page.
The discussion will address the works on view and how the exhibition’s central theme of addiction — both as an endemic issue in the US and from the personal perspective of the artist, whose family has been deeply affected by addiction and the opioid crisis — is manifest in the sculptural installation series “Biminis” as well as in “Coral Reef”, a black box multi-media installation, and in “Coral,” a 16mm film for which he learned to scuba dive in order to plant a gravestone sculpture for his sister within a coral reef.
Further information about the Matt Town’s solo exhibition “Coral” can be found HERE.
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Matt Town (b. 1989, Sarasota, Florida) is a Los Angeles-based artist working with moving image, photography, painting, installation and sculpture. His work is primarily concerned with a sense of community and one’s role within it and has appeared at CommonsLA, Los Angeles, CA; Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; The Box, Los Angeles, CA; Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA; eyes never sleep, New York; and The Horse, Dublin, Ireland, among others. His works have screened at Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY; Millennium Film Workshop, New York, NY; UnionDocs, Brooklyn, NY; and Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; among others. His works have been discussed in ARTnews, ArtObserved, Hyperallergic, and others. Matt Town received a BA in Film & Media Studies from the University of Florida in 2013 and an MFA in Art from California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) in 2017.
Matthew Lax is an experimental filmmaker, artist and writer based between LA and NY. Lax’s films and video installations have been presented at Viennale (Austria), IHME Contemporary (Helsinki), Rencontres Internationales (Paris/Berlin), table (Chicago), Los Angeles Contemporary Archive (LACA), REDCAT, and Winnipeg Underground Film Festival, among others. Lax’s curatorial projects have been held at Anthology Film Archives (NY), Fellows of Contemporary Art, and Human Resources (LA). Lax’s writing has appeared in publications including MARCH Journal, Texte Zur Kunst, and Los Angeles Review of Books. Lax is a recipient of a 2024 Lightning Fund Grant from Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE) and the Andy Warhol Foundation.