David M. Roth of art journal Squarecylinder expertly reviewed Matthew Picton’s The Age of Kali exhibition on view through February 26, 2022, at Nancy Toomey Fine Art inside Minnesota Street Project, 1275 Minnesota Street.
Matthew Picton @ Nancy Toomey
by David M. Roth – February 3, 2022
“Drawing from literature, art and music, Matthew Picton extends and further complicates his longstanding practice of depicting pivotal historical events with multi-layered cityscapes built of cut paper… His targets—colonialism, capitalism, tribalism and religious intolerance—come in for serious drubbing, and rightly so. Yet, there’s nothing manipulative or overly didactic about his treatment of these subjects; their shot-through, labyrinthine construction mirrors the murky imprint of the distant past and leaves much to the imagination…” More »