| Matt Volla is an Oakland based artist and musician whose art practice involves two different directions. One pursuit is conceptual and absurdist and involves setting up intricate systems in an attempt to quantify everyday actions. The results are used to translate those actions into a new action. The other direction Volla takes in his work has recently been documented in a book published by Front 40 Press entitled Matt Volla's Unruly Drawings. These "unruly" drawings offer an intuitive balance to his more cerebral conceptual practices. The drawings are a playful submersion into the subconscious revealing a loose narrative of their 10 year evolution. Matt Volla is also director and curator of "KEYS THAT FIT", a project space for artists started in 2004 in the storefront windows of his studio in Oakland, CA . Volla's work has been shown throughout America in solo and group shows including P.S.1/MOMA, White Columns Gallery, and Harvestworks in New York City; in San Francisco at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and the Marin Headlands Center for the Arts; in Chicago at Gallery2 and the Betty Rhymer Gallery; and in Detroit at the Tangent Gallery. In Europe, my work has screened at the Rotterdam International Film Festival in the Netherlands |
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