Matthew Metzger

In a felicitous pairing with the works of Vik Muniz, Metzger's compositions represent a peculiar alloy of modernist abstraction— particularly its focus on surface—and trompe l'oeil painting, which in a different way is equally obsessed with surface appearance. Thus, in Metzger's hands, a piece of scuffed black emery paper becomes a meditation on the minimalist monochrome.