Matthew Ritchie

Matthew Ritchie's installations of painting, wall drawings, light boxes, sculpture, and projections are investigations of the idea of information; explored through science, architecture, history and the dynamics of culture, defined equally by their range and their lyrical visual language.

"The Universal Cell" Whitney Museum of American Art, New York 2005


"The Universal Cell" Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 2005

Matthew Ritchie's work takes a basic line and takes it farther in meaning, in space, and in motion. He is a lover of layers, both literal and conceptual. His art goes back and forth between computer generation and hand execution: Imagery is drawn, scanned, projected, traced, scanned again, and printed and animated in myriad ways. The large framed canvases build up layers of different mark making: stains, drips, loops, and squiggles that constantly play off the macro and microcosmic.

"Parents and Children" Andrea Rosen Gallery

"The Morning Line" Andrea Rosen Gallery, 2008-2009

More omnivorous than omnipotent, encompassing everything from cutting-edge physics, ancient myth, neo-noir short stories and medieval alchemy to climate change, contemporary politics and economic theory, his installations fuse unique narrative forms with our constantly changing factual understanding of our universe.