CAVETECH
A solo exhibition by Matt Reynolds
MODEST common, Downtown Los Angeles, CA
February 8 - March 12, 2025
CAVE TECH is the first Los Angeles solo show of artist and animator Matt Reynolds at MODEST common. The show comprises sculpture works made by Reynolds in the last two years, as well as projected animations, exploring the artist’s preoccupation with “cartooning” as an abstracted process of distillation and construction of visual language.
Using fabrication techniques borrowed from the illusionist art of production design, Reynolds has created a coherent vernacular of sculpted forms that read as organic morphologies molded into rectilinear confinement. Anatomy and architecture collide to create pyscosexually-rich totems of an imaginary neolithic origin. CAVE TECH playfully demonstrates an urge to embrace our troglodytic impulses and return to the caves to reconnect to a path towards meaning.
Matt Reynolds is an animated filmmaker, artist, and educator raised in the California Bay Area. He received an MFA in Experimental Animation from CalArts in 2016. He was an invited artist in residence at GlogauAIR Berlin in 2013, and the Santa Monica Camera Obscura Art Lab in 2020. Consistent across his work in animation, sculpture, and graphic arts is a fascination with the grotesque and fantastical. His sculptures, made primarily from styrofoam and stucco, articulate a personal visual lexicon that melds cartoon exaggerations with anatomical and architectural forms to create playful - yet menacing - hybrid morphologies. Reynolds currently teaches animation and media arts with the Los Angeles Community College District and the non-profit organization LA Promise Fund.