Matthew Brannon (b. 1971)

'Letterpress prints have an amazingly rich, almost sculptural presence that results from image and text being literally pressed into the paper. After experimenting a bit, in 2006, I started work on a series of letterpress prints that had almost nothing to do with movies and that granted greater autonomy to image, title and caption. I figured that if I let each syntactical element have a narrative of its own, there would be no limit to what their recombinations might mean. I’d discovered a platform with which I could say anything.' (M. Brannon, quoted in S. Stillman, 'Matthew Brannon', Art in America, November 2011.)