Matthew Metzger, That Which Can't Be Played (Composition #7), acrylic and oil on MRMDF Panel, 11 x 11 inches, 2015 (courtesy of the artist)
Gwendolyn Zabicki interviews painter Matthew Metzger.
Metzger comments: "I am tied to the belief that paint can be alchemic in a way. I think the illusion that paint has the capability of reconfiguring itself through becoming something other than itself has always been fundamental to painting. ... I know it sounds ridiculous or perhaps a little too dogmatic, but in painting today there is just not enough insistence on forcing paint to do what the artist wants it to do. It’s a material like anything else in the world and you can make it do whatever you believe it can do."