In this body of work, Matthew Kluber investigates the intersection of painting and digital technology, locating itself at the point where the physical world (traditional media) meets the virtual world (new media). At this intersection, the ephemeral, un-located space of digital video is attached, by means of projection, to the fixed object of a painting, illuminating it with a new color space and code-derived content, creating a hybrid pictorial experience.

Reference points for this work come from an interest in the historic changes brought about in art by social and cultural transformations and rapid developments in science and technology in the 1960’s and 70’s.

Matthew Kluber received a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA from the University of Iowa. He is a Professor in the Art Department at Grinnell College. Kluber has exhibited his paintings/projections, films, drawings, and public art at galleries and museums including: The Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai, China, FOCUS09/Art Basel, Switzerland; The Orlando Museum of Art; Art Basel Miami; Orange Door, the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Art Foundation, Chicago; The Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC; David Richard Gallery, New York; Haw Contemporary, Kansas City; Joseph Nease Gallery, Duluth; Bemis Center for Contemporary Art and Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha. Kluber’s work is in the permanent collection of the Portland Museum of Art, OR; the Grand Rapids Art Museum, MI; the Des Moines Art Center, IA; the University of Iowa Museum of Art, the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Art Foundation, Chicago; and Estée Lauder International, Inc., New York.