postfair - House Of Seiko

Quintessa Matrange

Post-Fair

February 20 - 22, 2025

1248 5th Street
Santa Monica, CA

February 20, 2025
11:00 am - 8:00 pm

February 21 - 22, 2025
11:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.

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House of Seiko is pleased to participate in the inaugural edition of Post-Fair with a solo presentation of work by the Bay Area-based painter, Quintessa Matranga.

Quintessa Matranga (b. 1989, New York) lives and works in San Francisco. Recent solo exhibitions include What Pipeline, Detroit, Sandy Brown, Berlin, and Queer Thoughts, New York. Selected group exhibitions include Karma International, Los Angeles, Pilar Corias, London, Carlos Ishikawa, London, and Bureau, New York. A forthcoming exhibition of paintings will be presented at House of Seiko in San Francisco later this year.

These works are more than simple studies of objects. However, Matranga seems less interested in developing a critical apparatus for the medium of painting, its market supremacy, and its constant rejuvenation amidst the genrespecific impasses of art history. Rather she has developed a method of image making that is uniquely figurative and conceptual; by adjoining form and concept she generates a multiplicity of connotations and narratives.

Matranga has crafted a body of work that gains sustenance from the value and meaning produced by the psychology of the viewer. Our comprehension feeds the artwork as the painted scaly backgrounds encircle us, squeezing out from our hearts and minds, our emotional and philosophical responses.

photography courtesy of Ryan Whelan