Matthew Palladino

Matthew Palladino makes paintings and sculptures that use complex compositional imagery to explore cultural and political ideas. Drawing upon illustration and graphic design, the pieces playfully reference pop culture, art history, moral pitfalls and the carnivalesque.

In Bad Map, Palladino exposes areas of a colorful map of the United States surrounded by water. The map and water are revealed by a graffiti-like scrawled erasure as if the image had been covered. This lithograph seamlessly combines map and scrawl in a playful political commentary.

Matthew Palladino's work is in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, NY and numerous private collections.