Opening Event – May 6, 6pm to 8:30pm

Matthew Cramer, born and raised in Cleveland Ohio, set up his current garage studio shortly after moving to Burbank with his wife and teenage son in 2017. He has been making art and music consistently for a long time. In addition, he is a graphic design teacher at Camino Nuevo, a downtown charter high school.

He started using the self-portrait as a reoccurring motif while attending Pratt for graduate school in New York. They have been an ongoing idea since that time in varying intensity along with many other themes and explorations. These self-portraits have taken on many different forms: sometimes more traditional theatrical paintings, collages and drawings, or leaning more into abstraction. In many ways this show is 25 years in the making as Cramer has envisioned exhibitions like this one with the viewer walking from mirror to mirror, painting to drawing and directly confronting a fellow human and the fleeting thoughts of the psyche since Grad school. This is still the driving idea behind this series of paintings and drawings.

cramer-studio.com
@matthew_cramer_art – insta