Matthew Ritchie was born in 1964 he was raised in London. He pursued Arts from Camber-well College where he received his Bachelor of Fine in 1986. Matthew later moved to New York in 1989, where he worked as a building superintendent until he had his first solo exhibition at Basilico Fine Arts in New York in 1995.Ritchie uses the art of painting in his career his work lies majorly in painting and drawing, he scans his drawings and transforms them into three-dimensional pieces. The process allows Matthew to reshape his work into sculptures, floor-to- wall installation as well as interactive video web sites. For the exhibition, he created Working Model (1995), a chart of seven categories of seven characteristics with corresponding attributes, shapes, and colors, which he still utilizes to formulate his pieces. Through his paintings and installations, Ritchie explores how to express systems of information in visual form. His charged, volatile images, which seem in the constant process of dynamic morphing, explore theories on the creation of the universe and its ongoing evolution. In installations like The Fast Set (2000), shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Miami, his images explode from the canvas, encompassing entire walls and cascading across the gallery floor (Art21). In Games of Chance and Skill (2002), a permanent installation commissioned by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ritchie's works sprawl across three different surfaces habitually employed by the artist: thick wall, translucent light panel, and transparent windows. In recent work, Ritchie has begun to integrate sculptural elements into his pieces. His multi-part installation The Hierarchy Problem (2003) incorporates a black latticework structure suspended above a colorful floor piece and flanked by a light box and wall drawing. The Morning Line (2008) uses the lattice-work along with architectural elements, whose structures are constructed on an expanded three-dimensional sketch which contains infinitely and an interactive variable music soundtrack that responds to the viewer. Ritchie, who frequently collaborates with specialists in different fields, in this case, worked with a team of architects, scientists, musicians, and programmers to realize the project (Heartney).
His creative work has also been implicated in major group exhibitions like the New Work-Drawings Today in San Francisco Museum of current sculpture (1996) and Whitney Biennial (1997). Ritchie also created Web site projects for the Walker Art Museum in Minneapolis (1996) and the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco (2001). Ritchie lives and works in New York.
Work cited
Heartney, Eleanor. "The visual arts: blurring the boundaries." US Society & Values. The Arts in America: new directions 8.1 (2003): 48-51.
Art21. (2017). Matthew Ritchie Art21. [Online] Available at https://art21.org/artist/matthew-ritchie/ [Accessed 20 Jul. 2017]
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