Matt Gondek is an American pop artist. He is a painter, muralist, and graphic illustrator focused on deconstructed pop art.

Career

Gondek is based in

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while his paintings and sculptures have been featured at exhibitions worldwide including Los Angeles, New York, Paris, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Korea, and

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. His works are usually done in vivid

acrylic paint Acrylic paint is a fast-drying paint made of pigment suspended in acrylic polymer emulsion and plasticizers, silicone oils, defoamers, stabilizers, or metal soaps. Most acrylic paints are water-based, but become water-resistant when dry. Depe ...

colors with bold lines featuring various

cartoon A cartoon is a type of visual art that is typically drawn, frequently animated, in an unrealistic or semi-realistic style. The specific meaning has evolved over time, but the modern usage usually refers to either: an image or series of images ...

and

comic book A comic book, also called comicbook, comic magazine or (in the United Kingdom and Ireland) simply comic, is a publication that consists of comics art in the form of sequential juxtaposed panels that represent individual scenes. Panels are of ...

characters such as

Mickey Mouse Mickey Mouse is an animated cartoon Character (arts), character co-created in 1928 by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks. The longtime mascot of The Walt Disney Company, Mickey is an Anthropomorphism, anthropomorphic mouse who typically wears red sho ...

Bugs Bunny Bugs Bunny is an animated cartoon character created in the late 1930s by Leon Schlesinger Productions (later Warner Bros. Cartoons) and voiced originally by Mel Blanc. Bugs is best known for his starring roles in the '' Looney Tunes'' and '' ...

, and

Homer Simpson Homer Jay Simpson is a fictional character and the main protagonist of the American animated sitcom ''The Simpsons''. He is voiced by Dan Castellaneta and first appeared, along with the rest of his family, in ''The Tracey Ullman Show'' short "G ...

often exploding, melting, or falling apart. His series "Fight Club" in 2022, a project including spiked baseball bats, was also offered as an

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collection. In December 2022, it was reported that one of the 50 limited-edition pieces from his "Deconstructed Mickeys" collection in 2018, valued at HK$50,000, was stolen from a toy store owner in Hong Kong.

Background

Gondek is a native of

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. He was named "Best Local Artist" by ''Pittsburgh Magazine'' in 2011.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

*Missing Person - Tokyo, Japan (November 2022) *Discipline - Mexico City (February 2022) *RATS - Los Angeles (August 2021) *Original Character - New York (April 2021) *Mood Swings - Paris (October 2020) *CONTROL - Los Angeles (November 2019) *Clean Break - Bangkok, Thailand (April 2019) *Growing Pains - Hong Kong (November 2018) *Clean Break - New York (May 2018) *Clean Break - Hong Kong (March 2018) *American Gods - Hong Kong (November 2017) *Glow in the Dark - Los Angeles, California (September 2017) *Unholy Hand - Detroit, Michigan (November 2015) *Struggles - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (April 2015) *Kill 'Em All - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (September 2014)

Group exhibitions

*Korean Art Fair - South Korea (October 2021)"Urban Break art fair becomes playground for graffiti, webtoons, tattoo"
''Korean Times''. Retrieved 2022-12-26. *Urban Art Fair - Paris (April 2018) *Cartoon - London (May 2016)

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Gondek, Matt Living people American artists Year of birth missing (living people)