Matthew Ritchie : a garden in the flood / edited by Mark W. Scala ; with contributions by Hanna Benn, Zachary B. Feldman, Caroline A. Jones, Paul T. Kwami, Matthew Ritchie, and Mark W. Scala.
Published in conjunction with the exhibition Matthew Ritchie: A Garden in the Flood, organized by the Frist Art Musuem, Nashville, November 11, 2022-March 5, 2023.
Contents:
Plasmatic space : extended painting / Mark W. Scala -- Flood in the garden : on Matthew Ritchie's metaphysical thermodynamics / Caroline A. Jones, PhD -- A garden in the flood / Matthew Ritchie -- Conversations on "A garden in the flood" / Hanna Benn, Paul T. Kwami, DMA, Matthew Ritchie.
Summary:
"Renowned New York-based interdisciplinary artist Matthew Ritchie (born 1964) seeks to visualize thought, connecting such fields as philosophy and mythology, epic poetry and science fiction, and history and physics, through installations of paintings, wall drawings, light boxes, games, sculpture, films and performance works. His works challenge social fragmentation by suggesting a unified theory of everything. Published for an exhibition at the Frist Art Museum, A Garden in the Flood examines a selection of his paintings, architectural structures, elaborate diagrams and hallucinatory video animations (which notably include a collaboration with the Grammy Award-winning Fisk Jubilee Singers). Employing "garden" and "flood" as metaphors for growth and destruction, transformation and renewal, Ritchie encourages readers to "reimagine the role art could play in whatever form of society may emerge next.""-- Provided by publisher.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.