DEMOND MATSUO
Samples for Z: I’ll Grow New Wings. 2022, Mixed media collage; paper, gold leaf, copper paint and patina on canvas.
Creatively interprets the experience of Zedrick:
“When I go out in the French Quarter and go and drum, my mama tell me...if I don't make no good money, I always got the next day.”
The collage was intentionally created for Zedrick. It opens a space of elevation and direct visual conversation with him, using rhythm and sampling techniques.
Demond Matsuo (b. circa 1973, Morgan City, LA; based in New Orleans, LA) is a self-taught painter and mixed-media artist. As a child, Matsuo studied martial arts which helped him manage anger and led to his developing a deep appreciation for Asian art and philosophies. His creative practice is informed by unsupervised travels to Spain, India and Turkey at a young age; as well as absorbing American videogames, Japanese anime and manga. Matsuo’s practice of reading and collaging grounds his images in poetry, pattern, and global textiles. Abstracted figures such as ghosts, gods, stags, and warriors recur in his art. Matsuo’s work is held by private collections and has been exhibited regionally at the Arthur Roger Gallery, Degas Gallery, Ann Connelly Fine Art and the Capitol Park Museum in Baton Rouge, where his work won First Place at Art Melt 2017.
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