ON VIEW OCTOBER 29, 2021 – JANUARY 16, 2022
Wonder Fair has officially reopened our gallery space at 15 West 9th Street with a renewed focus on beautiful and useful items for the home, a utopian bookstore, and an exhibition of work by printmaker Matthew Willie Garcia.
Speculative Romance of Space and Time draws on the idea of the space-time continuum: that space and time are two dimensions of a single fluid four-dimensional construct. Like the continuum, the works within this series explore what it means to be formed of space and time and uses these ideas to talk about the fluid nature of existence, and explore what it means to be queer. The exhibition draws from ideas of quantum mechanics, cosmology and astrophysics to speculate what it looks like to have a queer fluid existence. This is a series of speculative/science fiction that strives to explore the ineffable qualities of the universe and what it means to be intrinsically tied to every aspect of the universe.
Matthew Willie Garcia is a printmaker whose work moves far beyond the traditional print media, he specializes in what he calls 4d printmaking, which includes screen printing, projection-mapped animation, large-scale installation, and drawing. His work explores ideas of queer quantum mechanics, intersectional existence, and speculative/science fiction identity narratives through color abstraction and nonrepresentational forms. Garcia was born and raised in Tulare, CA. He received a B.F.A. in Printmaking from the Kansas City Art Institute and his M.F.A. from the University of Kansas. Garcia has shown his work regionally though out the Midwest, notably his work has been included as part of "Queer Abstraction" group exhibition at the Nerman Contemporary Museum of art, "Star Children" Group exhibition at the Bradbury Art Museum, and will be part of the upcoming "SUMI-FUSION" Mokuhanga exhibition in Nara, Japan. Garcia is the Print Studio Coordinator at the Lawrence Arts Center.
Artist website: matthewwilliegarcia.com
Instagram: @matthewwilliegarcia
