Institute of Contemporary Arts

Matthew Brannon: Misused pronoun

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Matthew Brannon is best known for his letterpress and silkscreen prints, which set up elusive relationships between images and texts. His prints frequently include images that would not look out of place in a cookbook, juxtaposed with unsettling or inappropriate sentences. His works often recall the language of advertising and posters – particularly from mid century America – and explore the potential of words and images to communicate but also to confound.

The artist sees his print for the ICA as both casual and deadly serious. The objects depicted – that include a ruler, a brassiere and some shrimps – suggest ways of measuring worth, while the text apparently derives from a pedantic grammatical criticism. The combination can be read in literal or nonsensical ways.

Matthew Brannon was born in St. Maries, Idaho in 1971 and lives & works in New York. His solo projects include a recent exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria, New York, in 2007. He featured in the group exhibition Poor. Old. Tired. Horse. at the ICA in 2009 and currently has a solo exhibition at The Approach, London.

£200 (£150 for members)

This print is part of the ICA Print Portfolio 2009. The other editions in the portfolio are Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Aleksandra Mir and Falke Pisano.

For more information, or to order, contact Vicky Steer, ICA Editions Manager (on 020 7766 1425 or vicky.steer@ica.org.uk ).