Suit and Jacket

Group Exhibition

June 2024 - July 2024

Suit and Jacket will be on view June 1 – July 14, 2024. Opening reception June 1, 3 - 6 pm.

Gallery AMPS and Rudolph Blume Fine Arts invite you to Suit and Jacket, A group exhibition featuring works by Clayton, Mateo Pizarro and Martin y Sicilia.

Christian Clayton: A survey of works commencing Christian’s solo career.

Christian's body of work includes his individual studio practice and his collaborative efforts with the Clayton Brothers, spanning two decades from 1996 to 2016.Christian has curated a survey of his personal collection, reflecting a period of recent divergence from The Clayton Brothers and personal evolution, spanning from 1997 to 2020. The enduringpresence of characters perpetually engaged in an unfolding narrative persists, as theycontinually reshape themselves amidst the fusion of abstract forms.

Mateo Pizarro: Improbable Beasts

Mateo Pizarro is a Colombian artist known for his expertise in drawing. He has developed his ownunique language within the realm of drawing, characterized by a combination of technicalmastery, conceptual depth, and a playful sense of humor.With the project "Bestiary of Non-Existent Animals", he was one of the winners of the CisnerosFontanals Art Foundation (CiFo) Scholarship and Commission Program, in a category thatrecognizes emerging artists from Latin America, he also received the first prize at the Salon deArte Joven Colsanitas-Embassy of Spain, among other awards. He has exhibited extensivelyinternationally and his work is part of important collections in America and Europe.

Martin y Sicilia: A Metaphor for The Game

The Game offers a thought-provoking explanation of identity, portraying characters without weapons who find themselves ensnared in a basketball hoop net – symbolizing the ever-changing nature of contexts. As societal structures evolve, individuals experience a sense of ongoing uncertainty, prompting them to continually adapt and redefine

themselves. Thus, The Game suggest that we are individuals navigating a world where traditional supports for identity have waned, leading us into a dynamic game of perpetual self-reinvention. We find ourselves ensnared in the back-and-forth of multiple realities, each undergoing constant metamorphosis.