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This site is dedicated to the showcase of artworks by artist Matt Haffner. Matt's work explores ambiguous narrative derivative of film noir, comic books, and ephemeral street art through the combination of drawing, painting and photography. His concepts are translated through a wide range of media including painting, drawing, installation works and public art. Matt Haffner's work is represented by LionsWeir•Ortt Gallery in New York. To view a more comprehensive portfolio, purchase work, recieve a current vitae or schedule a studio visit, please visit the contact portion of this website or contact the gallery listed above.
About the Work Taking a page from Charles Bukowski and a line from Tom Waits, this work delves into a narrative, which has its roots in the everyman, addressing aspects of the underbelly of society, with characters on the fringes of culture. Inspired aesthetically by Japanese and European film noir of the 50’s and 60’s, these narratives explore the moments of intrigue when the fabric of mundane existence is torn away. Through a set of threatening or inexplicable encounters, the characters and their counterparts move though an urban landscape, participants in an ambiguous narrative and caught in the moments of pause between action and reaction.
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