First Time Caller
Long Time Listener
Mario Zoots and Matt O'Neill
Lane Meyer Projects is pleased to announce First Time Caller Long Time Listener featuring artworks by Mario Zoots and Matt O'Neill
October 14th, 2016 - November 23, 2016
Opening Reception: Friday, October 14th, 6 - 9pm
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Matt O'Neill relocated to Denver from Chicago in the 1980's in order to become a ski-bum. Naturalistic realism has defined his style for most of the time since, whether portraits of his neighbors in the Five Points area of Denver or of spotty teenagers taken from yearbook photos, O’Neill’s subjects often derive from cultural nostalgia combined with surrealism and humor. In many of his paintings O'Neill takes a uniquely western subject and renders it through the prism of Picasso’s simultaneous reverence and bizarrely mocking abstraction.
Mario Zoots
About
Born 1981, Denver, CO
Lives and works in Denver, CO
Education
2014 - MA, University of Denver, Emergent Digital Practices
2010 - BFA, Metropolitan State University, New Media
Solo Exhibitions
2012
I Just Wanna Be As Pretty As I Feel, Preteen Gallery, Mexico City, MX
New Gothic, Super Ordinary Gallery, Denver, CO
2010
I Miss Mystery, Illiterate Gallery, Denver, CO
Witches Cradle, Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design, Denver, CO
Select Group Exhibitions
2014
Scope Art Fair, Red Bull Curates,
Miami Beach, FL
Super Human,
Plus Gallery, Denver, CO
Its Been 4 Years Since 2010,
Arcadia Missa, London, UK
International Weird Collage Show,
Invisible Dog, Brooklyn, NY
The Age of Collage,
Feinkunst Kruger, Hamburg, Germany
Outside In 303,
Museo de las Americas, Denver, CO
You Look Like How I Used To,
Dateline, Denver, CO
2013
MediaLive, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO
Soft Opening, Private Island, Los Angeles, CA
Come, All Ye Faithful, Florian Christopher, Zurich, Switzerland
Draft Urbanism, Biennial of the Americas, Denver, CO
Cut + Paste, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO
Untitled Collages, Month of Photography, Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, CO
I Dont Know Its An Illusion I Dont Care, Vamialis, Athens, Greece
Real Is A Feeling, Gildar Gallery, Denver, CO
Phos: Light Today, Colorado Photographic Art Center, Denver, CO
