Mathew Paul Jinks is an International artist based in Chicago, utilizing video, sound, sculpture and performance to explore themes of myth, belief systems, loss and memory. In all his work Mathew plays the role of conduit between spaces and horizon points related to this theme. He combines both historical and fictional narratives with his own to foster new ones, to explore ontological potential: the nature of being. Mathew is working with the idea of autobiography and the problems of mythologizing the past. The autobiographical text serves as a blind-spot from which to access his studio practice. The materiality of brass, oak and light play a role in Mathews story and, in turn, their own stories: their life as materials mined and milled, managed as resources and used historically. Mathew completed his undergraduate studies at The Glasgow School of Art in Scotland U.K, in 2005. He then moved to the U.S and completed his MFA at the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2008.

June 18 — July 27, 2008

Opening Reception 6-9p, July 18