THE NEWSSTAND PROJECT is pleased to present SLEIGHT OF HAND, an exhibition of recent work by London-born, Beijing-based artist MATT HOPE, organized by Alexis Hyde. SLEIGHT OF HAND will be on view by appointment at 8361 Beverly Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90048 from February 17 to March 23, 2019, with a public reception to be help Friday, February 17 from 11:00am – 1:30pm.
SLEIGHT OF HAND features selected recent drawings and sculptures from Hope’s expansive and enigmatic artistic practice, one consistently in conversation with aspects of architecture, engineering, industry, and technology. On view during this exhibition are a collection of intricate drawings hand-rendered onto paper through a digitally-derived image generation process. For their inception, Hope generates and manipulates three-dimensional models and spaces using various computer-aided design softwares. He subsequently hand-translates these digital compositions into two-dimensional drawings via a labyrinthian, draftsman-like mark making methodology. Intricate yet restrained, Hope’s drawings merge organic and synthetic imagery in fictitious extra-dimensional spaces, folding recognizable motifs into hallucinatory, yet unified scenarios.
