New York-based artist Matthew Ronay's 'Sac, Cyst, Satchel' now on view at Casey Kaplan
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New York-based artist Matthew Ronay's 'Sac, Cyst, Satchel' now on view at Casey Kaplan
Matthew Ronay, Lover's Hair, 2023 (detail).



NEW YORK, NY.- The assumption of the skin is that it functions as a bag to keep the parts from oozing out. Sac, Cyst, Satchel is an exhibition of new wall-based and freestanding basswood sculptures by Matthew Ronay (b. 1976, Louisville, KY) that explore depictions of the internal. Forged through automatic drawing, high-speed rotary tools, and loose metaphor, each work divulges an abstracted inner place—bodily or otherwise. Meandering vessels, irregular lumps, and mild hues of dye beckon viewers to contemplate what lies beneath.

Interior-ness has a peculiar relationship to belief; when things are hidden beneath or inside, faith can balance the equation. Nodules and warts on the surface often serve as indicators of hidden decay. In Snag (2023), black pimples or mold spores emerge from an exterior splattered with white dye. Other surface treatments hint at the innerworkings of stems or bulges—manual and electric tools leave grooves or render the wood shaggy; it becomes pitted and dimpled like flesh or finely perforated like velvet. These haptic textures incite a response akin to our nervous system when sensing internal injury or sickness. Although we feel that the underlying systems are real, skepticism and bafflement linger.

To achieve the exhibition’s subdued color spectrum, Ronay worked with longtime collaborator and life partner, Bengü, to translate colors associated with organs, roots, and other inner components to powder-based dye. The resulting palettes blush and bleach as if changing temperature, from delicate peach to bruised slate or the brown of decay to ripe raspberry.

Despite exceeding eight feet in length, the construction of Doff (2023) is unaffected by gravity. Utilizing the wall enables expansive negative spaces, weightless pouches, and delicate threads and tubes. Conversely, freestanding sculptures find grounding through geometric forms in their lower halves. In Remediating (2023), a foundation of rectilinear blocks atop cylindrical pegs supports the layers of repetitive forms above. The artist's representations of inorganic structures, whether involving the existing gallery wall behind nets of carved neurons or inventing an architectural system within a work, suggest that a 'sub-' quality need not be human, earthbound, carbon-based, or even alive to be understood.

New York-based artist Matthew Ronay (B. 1976, Louisville, Kentucky) is best known for his chromatic, handmade wood sculptures that at different turns suggest unearthly landscapes with futuristic architectures and bodily processes like digestion and aging. A consummate woodworker, Ronay crafts his sculptures by hand carving, grinding, and sanding basswood. He then dyes it and occasionally applies flocking, before combining several elements together in a unified composition, transforming the materials into phantasmagorical worlds. Ronay studied at the Maryland Institute College of Art before earning his MFA from Yale University in 2000. In 2022, the artist presented a solo exhibition at the Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, in conjunction with a fully illustrated monograph. In 2016, his work was the subject of solo presentations at the Blaffer Art Museum, Houston, Texas and the Pérez Art Museum Miami, Florida. Ronay has exhibited at institutions including Kunsthalle Lingen, Germany; University of Louisville, Kentucky; Artspace, San Antonio, Texas; Serpentine Gallery, London; Sculpture Center, New York; Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, New York; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas; Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, Louisville, Kentucky; and Parasol Unit Foundation for Contemporary Art, London. Ronay participated in the 2013 Lyon Biennale, curated by Gunnar Kvaran, and the 2004 Whitney Biennial.

Casey Kiaplan
Matthew Ronay: Sac, Cyst, Satchel
March 7th - April 13th, 2024
OPENING RECEPTION: THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 6 - 8PM










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