{"product_id":"mathew-cerletty-full-length-mirror-9781949172584","title":"Mathew Cerletty: Full Length Mirror","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMathew Cerletty creates eerie hyperrealist portraits of everyday objects\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe idealized household objects of New York-based painter Matthew Cerletty (born 1980), scaled up and isolated on single color backgrounds, float in a purified, contaminant-free space. The objects are familiar, even jokingly so, but resist apprehension. Cerletty's subjects always return a scrutinizing gaze, seeking connection with a viewer who might catalyze the work's completion. As Chris Sharp writes, \"How to account for the work in Mathew Cerletty's \u003ci\u003eFull Length Mirror\u003c\/i\u003e? What drives this artist to paint these things? What could possibly impel him to depict a jet ski, a green ottoman, a brown leather belt, a laundry rack or white ceiling molding with such bright, marvelously matter-of-fact and painstaking realism? The funny thing about this is that the natural inclination to solving this mystery is not necessarily to dwell upon a single painting or drawing, but to look at another, and then another, in hopes of shaking out the fils rouges between them. It's as if they, not individually, but as a sequence, are supposed to gradually disclose their enigma, rebus-like, collectively yielding it up like a decoded secret. And yet the more you glance between the works, the more opaque, enigmatic and inscrutable they are liable to become.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Power Station\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/13\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781949172584\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 88\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 11.42h x 9.45w x 0.55d","brand":"Mathew Cerletty","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40292778148021,"sku":"9781949172584","price":29.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_7651c0ac-a930-4a50-8329-82aeff66d4a0.jpg?v=1624333947","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/mathew-cerletty-full-length-mirror-9781949172584","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}