Juxtapoz Magazine – Matt Bollinger Is Near His Peak in “Off Peak”

Matt Bollinger is painting and animating fantasy and fact, simultaneously. The characters by themselves appear to be in a suspended condition of reflection and dreaming, an escape but a single that isn’t really really visualized or recognized. When we have termed Bollinger a wonderful American painter in the earlier, or a fantastic American storyteller, it was often for what was off-the-canvas to what every character was hunting at. Are they observing a landscape they never identify or 1 that they basically recognize considerably as well effectively? I think that is what moves me about Bollinger’s paintings: there is a disappointment and honesty because what we see in entrance of us is a real truth we can’t fathom to reckon or have denied. 

These are functioning class Americans, but also a discussion about what takes place immediately after do the job. Off Peak, his new demonstrate at mother’s tankstation in Dublin, Eire, could be referred to as “off hrs.” The vacant storefront, filling up the tank at the gasoline station, the burning a pile of garbage in the property, it all feels like a minute wherever time is standing nevertheless and time is traveling by. It can be all so believable and however each person in the portray feels transfixed by one thing just too far away to absolutely see. It feels like the great American tale for 2022. —Evan Pricco