About the work

Everyone who studies wars, studies the tensions and decisions that lead to war. For me it’s the most interesting and disturbing part. That moment before it was too late. And here we are in 2022 pondering another dangerous situation with the potential to exponentially expand or even end it all. It all feels like the worst form of nostalgia; world wars ~ cold wars. I look around and I’m disturbed by the amount of enthusiasm for confrontation. The ease of blame. The urge to escalate. I think it’s a very dangerous intoxication.

-Matthew Brannon, March 2022

About the artist

MATTHEW BRANNON (b.1971, St. Maries, Idaho, USA) lives and works in New York, USA. He holds a BA from University of California, Los Angeles and a MFA from Columbia University, New York. 

Brannon has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Marino Marini Museum, Florence (2013); Portikus, Frankfurt (2012); Museum M, Leuven, Belgium (2010); Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria, New York (2007); and Art Gallery of York University, Toronto (2007). His work is in the permanent collections of numerous museums, including The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York; Denver Art Museum; DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens; and Museo MADRE, Naples, Italy.