VOLTA NY

Art Fair

5-8 March 2009

M+B is pleased to invite you to VOLTA NY 2009 held at 7 W 34th Street, directly across from The Empire State Building in Manhattan. VOLTA NY is open to the public from Thursday, March 5 to Sunday, March 8 from 1p to 9p. Please come visit us at Booth D8 where we will be exhibiting a solo presentation of new work by Matthew Porter.

Tickets may be purchased at the entrance or The Armory Show + VOLTA NY Combination Pass may be purchased HERE.

VOLTA NY was the American incarnation of the successful young fair founded in Basel in 2005 and was conceived to continue the original mandate to create a tightly-focused, boutique affair that would be a place for discovery and concentrate on current and topical art production by introducing a new format with exclusively solo projects, conceived to complement the exciting program of art available during The Armory Arts Week. The Armory Show Executive Director Katelijne de Backer stated, "The VOLTA fair is one of these gems that has emerged on the art fair circuit in recent years and that no one can ignore. As we are part of the same family now, it was only obvious that we invite them to New York."

In 2009 VOLTA NY will be organized as an invitational curated show by the directorial team of art critic/curators Amanda Coulson (Executive Director) and Christian Viveros-Fauné (Curatorial Advisor). By putting the focus back on artists through exclusively featuring solo projects, VOLTA NY promotes a deep exploration of the work of its selected artists and galleries, an opportunity for discoveries that move beyond those afforded by a traditional art fair.

Strung together, Matthew Porter's (American, b. 1975) photographs present a subjective cluster of both absurd fantasy and muted desire. Their fantastic spectacle is sometimes spoiled by their equally negative iconography. Light splashes over the top of the Nazi sponsored Hindenburg as it soars over the American West. A large image of a dying nebulae in space, or that of an emasculated fort in Maine, serve as establishing shots for a non-existing narrative.

Matthew Porter was born in Pennsylvania and attended Bard and Bard/ICP for a BA and MFA, respectively, in Photography. He has contributed work to Topic, Tokion, Capricious, New York Magazine, and Modern Painters. He currently lives and works in Brooklyn.

For more information, please contact the gallery or visit the Volta NY website at www.voltashow.com.