Garbage

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Garbage' is a series of architectural-scale paintings by Mathew Reichertz that transform the art gallery into a comic book. Taken together the paintings tell the story of neighbours in Halifax?s North End and a mysterious couch that shows up one morning on the narrator?s front curb. As the narrator confronts his neighbours, asking where it came from, he gains insight into their lives as well as his own. Garbage collects these paintings into a graphic novel, which includes an essay by exhibition curator Robin Metcalfe and an introduction by comics academic Benjamin Woo. Co-published by Conundrum Press and Saint Mary?s University Art Gallery. In 2005 Matthew Reichertz was the Eastern Canadian winner of the RBC Canadian Painting Competition and in 2006 was shortlisted for the Sobey Art Award. This is the first publication dedicated to his work. Robin Metcalfe is director of Saint Mary?s University Art Gallery and author of numerous exhibition catalogues. Benjamin Woo is co-author of 'The Greatest Comic Book of All Time: Symbolic Capital and the Field of American Comics (2016)'. 00Exhibition: Saint Mary?s University Art Gallery, Halifax, Canada (10.01.-08.03.2016) / Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa, Canada (18.01.-03.04.2016).