Escalator to Common Art opens at Dispatch
MARK VAN YETTER and MATT HOYT: Escalator to Common Art
April 13 ‘ May 11, 2008
Opening reception: Sunday, April 13, 3-7 pm
Office hours: Thursday’Sunday, 1′6 pm
DISPATCH presents Escalator to Common Art featuring the work of Mark Van Yetter and Matt Hoyt. Declining the scale and production value of current artistic output, Yetter and Hoyt have each carved out unique practices and share a position of considered refusal. Mark Van Yetter, primarily a painter and draftsman, draws upon a range of intuitive and art historical styles; underlying the work is a return to origin similar to the early projects of the expressionists and surrealists.
Matt Hoyt’s small and intimate pieces have an extrasculptural status ‘ their scale relates more to the human hand than to the full human body. His arrangement of his hand-made objects, crafted from found and ordinary materials, shows a carefully considered, idiosyncratic process.
Mark Van Yetter received his BFA from the School of Visual Arts, NY, with studies at Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam. Recent solo exhibitions include Hotel, London and Galerie Micky Schubert, Berlin, among others. Lives and works in Pennsylvania and Istanbul. Matt Hoyt received his BFA in 2000 from the School of Visual Arts. Past exhibitions include a group show at Massimo Audiello and solo project at Marquise Dance Hall. Lives and works in New York.
Image:Mark Yetter, untitled, 2008.
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