Exhibition: Paris Internationale 2022

Bureau is pleased to present two longstanding artists of the gallery, Matt Hoyt and Julia Rommel. Each will have an autonomous presentation on facing walls. Hoyt will show a suite of grid-patterned paintings alongside recent small sculptures. Hoyt’s handmade objects are strange and fascinating, conjuring many forms from variously tinted spikes, spheres and many as-yet unnamed shapes from an imagined future or alternate past. Hoyt’s paintings provide a rhythmic presence grounded in geometry, pattern and order, however they bear the delicate traces of imperfection from the artist’s hand. Hoyt cites the primary inspiration and influence for the paintings as the archetypal power of the grid as employed by many cultures, particularly Latvian folk designs, Navajo weaving and American barn quilts, and likely going back to prehistoric times. Rommel will present three new paintings in shades of blue. One powerful, vertical work, Bride revisits Rommel’s formative dark monochrome paintings, in an inky, almost-black indigo. A horizontal work, Zanzibar banded with turquoise and lapis could suggest a seascape horizon. There is a structural, pragmatic quality to Rommel’s paintings. We see how they are built, layered, rubbed, smoothed, folded, unfolded and stapled together, bearing the traces that have become Rommel’s signature style. The traces of construction are inscribed into each painting’s surface: the deep grooves and creases describe the complex history of each work’s making.

Matt Hoyt (b. 1975, Mount Kisco, NY) lives and works in New York. Hoyt received a BFA from the the School of Visual Arts in New York. Solo and two-person exhibitions include Vessels and Lights, Bureau at ECHO, Cologne, 2022; Note To You, Bureau, New York, 2021; Einig, with Tom Tayer, Stations, Berlin, 2019; Six Winds, Bureau, New York, 2019; Chrysalis, Bureau, New York, 2017; Recent Past, 2010–2016, Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, 2016; One Another, Art in General, New York, 2015; It’s Always Nice to Meet You, Bureau, New York, 2014; 2006- 2011, Bureau, New York, 2012; Escalator to Common Art, with Mark Van Yetter, Dispatch, New York, 2008. Hoyt’s work was included in the 2012 Whitney Biennial; MoMA PS1’s 2010 Greater New York, and Jay Sanders’s 2008 White Columns Annual. Group exhibitions include: Zentrifed!, cur. by Ken Johnson, Tomas Park, New York, 2019; Objects Like Us, cur. Amy Smith-Stewart and David Adamo, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, 2018; Strange Attractors, cur. Bob Nickas, Redling Fine Art, Los Angeles, 2017; Sunlight arrives only at its proper hour, cur. Mitchell Algus and Olivia Shao, 356 Mission, Los Angeles, 2017. In 2013 Hoyt received the Grants to Artists Award from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. His work is in the collections of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

Julia Rommel (b. 1980, in Salisbury, MD) lives and works in New York. Rommel received her MFA from American University in Washington D.C. Recent solo and two-person exhibitions include: Just a Splash, Standard (Oslo), Oslo, 2022; Uncle, Bureau, New York, 2022; Long Leash, Overduin & Co., Los Angeles, 2020; Fall Guy, Standard (Oslo), Oslo, 2019; Candy Jail, Bureau, New York, 2019; Twin Bed, Bureau at Tanya Leighton, Berlin, 2018; Stay-at-Home Dad with Mathew Cerletty, Standard (Oslo), Oslo, 2017; Man Alive, Bureau, New York, 2016; A Cheesecake With Your Name On It, Overduin & Co., Los Angeles, 2016; Two Italians, Six Lifeguards, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, 2015. Her work is in the collection of the Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; KADIST, Paris and San Francisco; Kistefos Museum, Jevnaker, Norway; Museum of Modern Art, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.