Matthew Schlagbaum: Smiling through gritted teeth

Bert Green Fine Art is pleased to present our second solo show by Chicago-based contemporary artist Matthew Schlagbaum. Matthew Schlagbaum unites the media of sculpture, photography, and paint to depict metaphors for oppressive social structures that masquerade as universal ideals. Mainstream concepts of happiness, and their resulting recommended lifestyles, are exposed as methods of systematic social control. His images and sculptural objects are sometimes drained of color, viewed from behind, or seen as manipulated emotional and physical states of being that express the profound exclusion experienced by those who are not the intended audience.

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