Matthew Picton
Matthew Picton was one of the big hits of the show, but that is what happens when you pull off a 30-foot wide installation that competes with exciting views of Portlands Bridges and downtown. His Cracked Driveway Drawing #11, an acrylic casting of a large crack in the asphalt evoked everything from salmon eggs to veins of gold hanging in space after all the surrounding rock has been removed. The complex fractal shapes from found objects evoke Duchamp's ready-mades, Pollocks skeins of paint as well as the in this together situation between man and nature. This symbiosis found in Pictons work belies a 21st century awareness of aggregate and cumulatively complex cause and effect reality.