Film/Video Producer & Editor

The exhibition, titled “2002”, offers a rare glimpse into the Matthew Greeley of two decades prior.

On display are the emergent artists’ video projects that were included in his application to CalArts for undergraduate studies in film. Raw and chaotic in nature, they bring viewers back to the en-masse identity shifts of a forever changed New York City in the immediate aftermath of 9/11.

If 2002 saw the beginning of new philosophies & ways of seeing in the art world — perspectives both awkward in growth and profound in realism — Matthew Greeley’s films are testament to the era’s power despite an underlying struggle to define itself as powerful.

Caleb Walton Staggers
Lund Humphries, London 2022