Matt Duffin:
Mr. Answers

Asked about his work featured on his website, Matt Duffin explains, “The content’s a bit revealing; all of the work centers around issues that keep me awake at night. Some of the paintings reflect present fears. Others revive fears of bygone days. What they all have in common is that at some point in the wee morning hours they have wreaked havoc on my sleep. The show is aptly titled “Nightshift.” More than anything, the work is an attempt to purge those fears from my psyche once and for all. Well, not really. It’s more a reluctant resignation that we’re together forever (my fears and I) and that I should therefore put them to productive use. My strategy has been to infuse them with a touch of black humor and turn them into works of art (literally). It just so happened that I’m about to send them off to New York during one of the biggest financial crises since the Great Depression. Seems fitting.”

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“Octavio Ocampo finds in painting a source of intellectual as well as plastic pleasure. Behind that deep green gaze of his, he does not hesitate to assert that his main concern is to be generous to the spectator of his metamorphic figures, intending by all means to make them forget their ennui. From his academic beginnings, Ocampo has evolved toward a style of his own, free of deep crises and governed by his naturally playful penchant for mysterious atmospheres & optical illusions. He has been fascinated by these from an early age, when he realised that gestaltic forms are unstable, capricious. Therefore, he has worked as a scenographer and as a muralist, enthralled by the deceit, the visual game.” – María Helena Noval, critic

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