My Art
21 June 2025
Opening Friday, 16 May, 6-8 pm
Matt Browning
My Art
16 May - 21 June 2025
The title of this exhibition “My Art” is revealing, as this show represents, with few exceptions, the scarce majority of what Matt Browning has been up to all these years. The exhibition records a period of ongoing work from 2011 until today. The story this summation tells is one of very slow movement, punctuated by frequent repetition and looping backwards. The trio of artworks in this exhibition can be carried in the hand of the person who made them. Each is unique, although some do not appear so. Wooden sculptures are carved from single blocks of Douglas fir and are cut in such a way that they collapse or unfold into grids of interlocking links. Such links never come apart. Here, one carving is displayed on a wall in a collapsed way, another is shown expanded. These are essentially the “same” artwork shown in different states. Each carving has motion to it, however inactive. Such motion can happen in real space but may just as well remain in one’s mind. Other carvings stand freely. These sculptures may also change but do so vertically, growing to twice in height. Two tables hold the other groups of sculptures. The first, handmade knifes that fold open and close, are pocketable tools or trompe l’oeils? The second, a crowd of cylinders, another question of sculpture asked by truncating empty glass bottles and then filling them with boiled down soda.
Matt Browning
Man, 2025
carved Douglas fir
165.5 x 12 x 12 cm
Man, 2025
carved Douglas fir
165.5 x 12 x 12 cm
installation view Galerie Buchholz, Köln 2025
Matt Browning
Man, 2025
carved Douglas fir
165.5 x 12 x 12 cm
installation view Galerie Buchholz, Köln 2025
Matt Browning
Man, 2025
carved Douglas fir
165.5 x 12 x 12 cm
installation view Galerie Buchholz, Köln 2025
Matt Browning
Man, 2025
carved Douglas fir
165.5 x 12 x 12 cm
installation view Galerie Buchholz, Köln 2025
Matt Browning
Man, 2025
carved Douglas fir
165.5 x 12 x 12 cm
Beech Tree, 2024
carved Douglas fir
331 x 9 x 9 cm
installation view Galerie Buchholz, Köln 2025
Matt Browning
Beech Tree, 2024
carved Douglas fir
331 x 9 x 9 cm
installation view Galerie Buchholz, Köln 2025
Matt Browning
Beech Tree, 2024
carved Douglas fir
331 x 9 x 9 cm
installation view Galerie Buchholz, Köln 2025
Matt Browning
Beech Tree, 2024
carved Douglas fir
331 x 9 x 9 cm
detail
Matt Browning
Beech Tree, 2024
carved Douglas fir
331 x 9 x 9 cm
Man, 2025
carved Douglas fir
165.5 x 12 x 12 cm
installation view Galerie Buchholz, Köln 2025
Matt Browning
Man, 2025
carved Douglas fir
165.5 x 12 x 12 cm
installation view Galerie Buchholz, Köln 2025
Matt Browning
Man, 2025
carved Douglas fir
165.5 x 12 x 12 cm
installation view Galerie Buchholz, Köln 2025
Matt Browning
Man, 2025
carved Douglas fir
165.5 x 12 x 12 cm
detail
Matt Browning
Man, 2025
carved Douglas fir
165.5 x 12 x 12 cm
Untitled, 2013
carved Douglas fir
55.7 x 55.7 x 4.5 cm
installation view Galerie Buchholz, Köln 2025
Matt Browning
Untitled, 2013
carved Douglas fir
55.7 x 55.7 x 4.5 cm
installation view Galerie Buchholz, Köln 2025
Matt Browning
Untitled, 2013
carved Douglas fir
55.7 x 55.7 x 4.5 cm
Matt Browning
Untitled, 2013
carved Douglas fir
55.7 x 55.7 x 4.5 cm
Matt Browning
My Art
installation view Galerie Buchholz, Köln 2025
Matt Browning
My Art
installation view Galerie Buchholz, Köln 2025
Matt Browning
Background, 2011
steel, nickel silver, micarta
7 x 2 x 1 cm (closed)
11.2 x 1.3 x 1 cm (open)
Background, 2011
steel, micarta
7 x 2 x 1 cm (closed)
11.2 x 1.3 x 1 cm (open)
installation view Galerie Buchholz, Köln 2025
Matt Browning
Background, 2011
steel, nickel silver, micarta
7 x 2 x 1 cm (closed)
11.2 x 1.3 x 1 cm (open)
Matt Browning
Background, 2011
steel, micarta
7 x 2 x 1 cm (closed)
11.2 x 1.3 x 1 cm (open)
Matt Browning
Dr. Pepper Reduction, 2025
19 cut glasses with Dr. Pepper
on artist’s table: powder coated steel, glass
80 x 80 x 180 cm
installation view Galerie Buchholz, Köln 2025
Matt Browning
Dr. Pepper Reduction, 2025
19 cut glasses with Dr. Pepper
on artist’s table: powder coated steel, glass
80 x 80 x 180 cm
detail
Matt Browning
Dr. Pepper Reduction, 2025
19 cut glasses with Dr. Pepper
on artist’s table: powder coated steel, glass
80 x 80 x 180 cm
detail
Matt Browning
Untitled, 2013
carved Douglas fir
69.5 x 3.7 x 4 cm
installation view Galerie Buchholz, Köln 2025
Matt Browning
Untitled, 2013
carved Douglas fir
69.5 x 3.7 x 4 cm
Matt Browning
Untitled, 2013
carved Douglas fir
69.5 x 3.7 x 4 cm
