Colin Matthes: Instructional and Flood Resistant Work at Bockley Gallery

Bockley Gallery is pleased to announce its first exhibit by Milwaukee artist Colin Matthes. Instructional and Flood Resistant Work presents paintings, drawings, and sculpture. Ten works from Essential Knowledge, a series of drawings on paper illustrating basic skills for success in challenging situations, are included in the exhibition. Additionally the artist has constructed flood resistant luxury objects; foam noodle floats and a provisional raft are used to ensure the survival of his oil on canvas paintings during times of rising sea levels.

Matthes takes language and imagery from motivational posters, advertising, Boy Scout handbooks, commerce, and other rhetorical sources to consider our contemporary condition living in late-stage capitalism and climate change. These works are timely, eco-poetic, and darkly humorous.