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Chip Schwartz reviews Locality in

“The raw yet refined reflections of Matthew Colaizzo.”

In his review of the June 2015 exhibition, Chip Schwartz writes:

“Taking cues from zen-inspired landscapes and Japanese printmaking masters like Hokusai, Colaizzo does not seek to dutifully recreate the locations he references, nor does he conceptualize his representations beyond what they are. As a result, Colaizzo’s body of multiple-block prints is more of a reaction than it is a rendering, relying on reflex and intuition in such a way that his practice mirrors walking and breathing instead of thinking or speaking.”

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