Artist Matt Giel makes his photos the old-fashioned way, with film and chemicals. But they are hybrids, part sculpture, part performance–as in the time he wrestled his gigantic developer out of his cellar studio to truck it to a one-day performance of slowly printing an extremely long photographic scroll. Giel names Marlo Pascual and James Welling among his influences.
Giel will be in a show organized by Tim Belknap and Ryan McCartney opening June 2 at the Icebox, the only art space in Philadelphia big enough to hold it. The 2012 Truck Show of work by 14 artists applies the car expo theme to pick-up trucks transformed into artwork!
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