Matt Copson

Matt Copson creates cartoonish, hand-drawn and digitally rendered laser projections that are cynical by nature, literally illuminating the absurdity of the human condition and, more specifically, the ineffability and impossibility of purpose, the futile pursuit of ambition, and trends of self-improvement and maximising ‘personal growth’. The artist’s spectral projections bathe their exhibition sites in vivid neon light that is synthetic, disconcerting and dystopian, but also soothing and entrancing. Copson foregrounds, critiques and even empathises with the contradictions personified by the human, and the willing absorption within and adoration of entertainment, mass media and nostalgia. Ultimately, Copson resolves his audience to the fact that these contradictions are unavoidable and intrinsic to life. Written by Goldsmiths CCA ...

C L E A R I N G is a contemporary art gallery based in New York, Los Angeles and Brussels. The gallery was founded in 2011, with the focus of showing emerging art. It now represents over 20 living artists, providing many of them - such as Harold Ancart, Korakrit Arunanondchai, Chase Hall, Calvin Marcus and Marina Pinsky - with their first gallery exhibition. The gallery also represents the estates of Eduardo Paolozzi, Bruno Gironcoli and René Heyvaert. C L E A R I N G supports its artists by producing works, exhibitions and books, as well as working closely with public and private institutions. ...