I Know Some Nice People
solo exhibition featuring new paintings by
MATTHEW CHOBERKA
February 5 - April 30, 2021
For his solo show with Carper Contemporary, I Know Some Nice People, Matthew Choberka releases a body of work that continues to evolve his exploration of figurative elements amidst his typical turbulent abstraction.
“When I suggested giving this show the title, “I Know Some Nice People,” I thought it pretty clever; a way to point toward the way these pictures embody a grotesquery that I perceive just about everywhere in our contemporary lives…in our politics, in our culture. But that’s not really it. At least as important, and very likely much more so, is a reckoning going on with aspects of myself. My imagination, my knowledge, such as they are, all I have to guide me in painting. But, until I have this work mirrored back to me, in the responses of friends, colleagues, I find that I can’t really even fully “see” what it is I am painting. Art demands a self-acceptance that I am not sure is possible for me.”
Matthew Choberka is a painter based in Ogden, Utah and Professor of Art at the Department of Visual Art & Design at Weber State University. Hereceived his BA from Colombia College in Illinois, studied painting and drawing at the New York Studio School, and received his MFA in painting from Indiana University. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally with exhibitions at the Torrance Art Museum in California, galleryELL in Brooklyn, Governor’s Island Art Fair in New York Harbor, Raid Projects in Los Angeles, and Beaux-Arts des Ameriques in Montreal, Canada. Choberka is also a represented artist at A Gallery/Allen+Alan Fine Art in Salt Lake City. His current studio practice encompasses oil and acrylic painting, as well as digital painting.
“…these pictures embody a grotesquery that I perceive just about everywhere in our contemporary lives…in our politics, in our culture...”
MATTHEW CHOBERKA // The Fabulist 2021 acrylic on canvas 70” x 58”
MATTHEW CHOBERKA // It’s Complicated 2021 acrylic on canvas 70" x 58"
MATTHEW CHOBERKA // Thought Experiment 2021 oil on canvas 48” x 48"
MATTHEW CHOBERKA // Parental Figure 2021 oil on canvas 48" x 38"
MATTHEW CHOBERKA // Painter’s Jail 1 2021 oil on board 24” x 20”
MATTHEW CHOBERKA // Painter’s Jail 2 2021 oil on board 24” x 20”
MATTHEW CHOBERKA // Mind Maps 2020 oil on canvas 48” x 38”
MATTHEW CHOBERKA // A Reassuring Squeeze 2021 oil on canvas 36” x 24”
MATTHEW CHOBERKA // Right Hand Man 2021 oil on board 24” x 20”
MATTHEW CHOBERKA // Almost Scrovegni 2021 oil on canvas 30” x 30”
MATTHEW CHOBERKA // Sphinx 2019 oil and mixed media on paper 30” x 22”
MATTHEW CHOBERKA // Green Head 2019 oil and mixed media on paper 30” x 22”
MATTHEW CHOBERKA // Yellow Blockhead 2020 pastel on paper 30” x 22”
MATTHEW CHOBERKA // Creature 2019 pastel on paper 30” x 22”
MATTHEW CHOBERKA // Green Goggles 2020 pastel on paper 30” x 22”
MATTHEW CHOBERKA // Couple 2020 pastel on paper 30” x 22”
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