Matthew Palladino: Wonder Box
May 8 - June 12, 2010
Baer Ridgway Exhibitions

MATTHEW PALLADINO: WONDERBOX
May 8 - June 12, 2010

Baer Ridgway Exhibitions is pleased to present Wonder Box, a solo show of Matthew Palladino's latest paintings. Wonder Box references a 19th century viewing device containing exotic scenes that a small audience could see through a peephole for a nominal fee. It is in this vein that Palladino's new paintings are presented, a contemporary peep show where ideas of morality are disoriented and reconfigured in a playful fashion. The pieces lack any clear moral compass, causing the viewer to investigate the images' ideological content through the unique lens of their own experience. The gallery door becomes the hole and once entered, the viewer is within the Wonder Box for a peek at the artist's distorted scenes of the erotic, spiritual and mundane. Not unlike a private dancer at a peep show, these pieces, painted up and protected by a layer of glass ask the viewer to "..look, but don't touch."