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

Los Angeles Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the List of municipalities in California, most populous city in the U.S. state of California, and the commercial, Financial District, Los Angeles, financial, and Culture of Los Angeles, ...

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

Singapore Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country and city-state in Southeast Asia. The country's territory comprises one main island, 63 satellite islands and islets, and one outlying islet. It is about one degree ...

. 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. Dep ...

colors with bold lines featuring various

cartoon A cartoon is a type of visual art that is typically drawn, frequently Animation, animated, in an realism (arts), unrealistic or semi-realistic style. The specific meaning has evolved, but the modern usage usually refers to either: an image or s ...

and

comic book A comic book, comic-magazine, or simply comic is a publication that consists of comics art in the form of sequential juxtaposed panel (comics), panels that represent individual scenes. Panels are often accompanied by descriptive prose and wri ...

characters such as

Mickey Mouse Mickey Mouse is an American cartoon character co-created in 1928 by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks. The longtime icon and mascot of the Walt Disney Company, Mickey is an anthropomorphic mouse who typically wears red shorts, large shoes, and white ...

Bugs Bunny Bugs Bunny is a cartoon character created in the late 1930s at Warner Bros. Cartoons (originally Leon Schlesinger, Leon Schlesinger Productions) and Voice acting, voiced originally by Mel Blanc. Bugs is best known for his featured roles in the ' ...

, and

Homer Simpson Homer Jay Simpson is the main protagonist of the American animated television series ''The Simpsons'' who is part of the titular family. Homer made his television debut in the short " Good Night" on '' The Tracey Ullman Show'' on April 19, ...

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

NFT A non-fungible token (NFT) is a unique digital identifier that is recorded on a blockchain and is used to certify ownership and authenticity. It cannot be copied, substituted, or subdivided. The ownership of an NFT is recorded in the blockchai ...

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

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Pittsburgh ( ) is a city in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States, and its county seat. It is the List of municipalities in Pennsylvania#Municipalities, second-most populous city in Pennsylvania (after Philadelphia) and the List of Un ...

. 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)