Matthew Zaccari Short Story

February 24 — March 28

Short Story assembles intimate, fragmentary scenes of showers, locker rooms, urinals, interiors and still lifes of flowers and forgotten objects into suspended moments between exposure and retreat. Rendered on masonite, these paintings depict muted, midcentury-inflected spaces that feel like afterimages of private rituals and half-remembered encounters. Across more than 20 works, they resist narrative closure and linger as short stories of queer interior life, caught just before something happens, or just after it slips away.

Matt Zaccari (b. 1989, Texarkana, TX) paints quickly, working wet-into-wet to capture everyday subjects. Pushing back on the noise and information overload of contemporary life, his paintings distill eclectic moments into modest, lyrical images. He received his MFA in Printmaking from Pratt in 2012, but now favors the immediacy and surprise of painting. Through direct brushwork, he creates scenes with distinct poetic weight that reveal the intimate relationship between viewer, subject and environment. He lives and works in Brooklyn.