"Gazing at Matthew Stone's new works at The Hole NYC, the question feels impossible to ignore. The exhibition, titled Staggered Paintings, describes the way in which his paintings are constructed: layer upon layer, moving back and forth between mediums of oil paint and AI technology. 'Staggered' implies something disrupted, jolted, or momentarily thrown off balance, and perhaps this is where painting sits today, leaning towards a change as it confronts the unprecedented capacities of digital production, CGI modelling and AI-driven image-making."
"This sustained experimentation has culminated in the paintings exhibited at The Hole NYC. "Now, with these new works, I'm returning to painting while incorporating the aesthetic possibilities developed through the digital process," he says. "I photograph individual brushstrokes and use 3D-modelling software to construct figures and compositions. I then 'stamp' these brushstrokes onto the virtual models and render them in CGI software like Cinema 4D.""
Matthew Stone's Staggered Paintings are constructed layer upon layer, alternating oil paint with AI-derived imagery and CGI techniques. Stone integrates photographed brushstrokes with 3D modelling, stamping tactile marks onto virtual figures and rendering them in software like Cinema 4D. The canvases show enlarged, tactile brush marks that partially obscure underlying figures, producing bodies seen through frosted surfaces. The works present painting as an expanded field where hand, brushstroke, and digital tool coexist, reframing craftsmanship rather than abandoning it. The practice bridges analogue tactility and computational image-making, interrogating painting's role amid unprecedented digital production capacities.
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