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Text by Brittni Wood

Installation artist, Matt Allison will be exhibiting a new body of work at Opaq gallery, with an opening reception this Wednesday during art walk. The show entitled “I love her, She loves me” will be my first stop at art walk, and if you know Matt’s work, it will be your first stop too. Do not miss this one.

Here’s the press release:

Opaq is pleased to present Matt Allison’s debut exhibit, “I Love Her, She Loves Me.” Matt’s work is a provocative blend of media, ranging from the humble and discarded material of life, a grape-fruit peel, a scrap of animal fur, a shredded snakeskin, to the glorified and venerated symbols of
Catholic iconography, religious paraphernalia, and mythology. Matt’s work explores our relics and remains, the ways in which we see our past, and they way we look to our future. With over seventy pieces, this installation is a unique sensory and aesthetic experience, but also, an emotional and intellectual one. It probes us, perhaps even reminds us, of the possibilities and the impossibilities of our own memories: how might they
be created, preserved, and transformed?

Photo and text by Brittni Wood

Photos from the Monsters with Candy show at Anomaly are up. Because of the rain earlier in the day, the turn out was a little less than expected. So, make sure you head out there sometime between now and August 24th, if you haven’t yet, and show some love to Anomaly and Brian Gray.

Click here for more photos from Monsters with Candy.

By Brittni Wood. More on Brittni Wood, Urban Jacksonville’s newest contributor, later today!

Local artist, Brian Gray will have his first solo show tonight (Friday 7/27) at Anomaly in Five Points entitled Monsters with Candy. The opening reception is from 6-9 and will feature illustrative paintings as well as toys, custom cigar purses, and possibly a t-shirt or two (all made by Gray).

I’ll be taking plenty of pictures opening night to post. Can’t make it out tomorrow? No problem. The show runs through August 24th, so you’ll have no excuse not to stop by.