{"id":16816,"date":"2011-05-03T19:19:31","date_gmt":"2011-05-03T17:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebkmag.com\/?p=16816"},"modified":"2011-05-03T19:19:31","modified_gmt":"2011-05-03T17:19:31","slug":"photographer-graphic-artist-andrew-matusik-exhibition-at-m2-gallery-in-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebkmag.com\/rebuild\/photography\/photographer-graphic-artist-andrew-matusik-exhibition-at-m2-gallery-in-los-angeles\/","title":{"rendered":"Photographer Graphic Artist Andrew Matusik Exhibition at M2 Gallery in Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"

M2 will be featuring the surreal photographic homage\u2019s of Andrew Matusik<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

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\u00a9 Andrew Matusik<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n

The show entitled \u201cSir Realist<\/a>\u201d<\/strong><\/span> will open May 14th<\/sup>, 2011. Matusik<\/strong> has periodically turned to the great Surrealist, Dali, Magritte, Escher, Man Ray, and Bosh for inspiration in his editorial assignments.\u00a0M2 Gallery <\/strong>is presenting the first showing of this retrospective of nearly a decade of surrealist inspired photo montage and imagery by Matusik.<\/p>\n

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\u00a9 Andrew Matusik<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n

Matusik\u2019s Photographic career began with travel and landscapes. In 2000, He began assisting and working with some of the industries legendary fashion and celebrity photographers. He moved to NY in 2004 began navigating the fashion world. In short time Matusik was able to land editorial, commercial, and celebrity assignments. He developed a reputation as a \u201cdigital\u201d innovator. Matusik was the first to work with single capture digital backs, played a major role in digital retouching revolution, and now is at the cutting edge of photo compositing with the utilization of CGI in still imagery.<\/p>\n

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\u00a9 Andrew Matusik<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n

Andrew Matusik, who attended Occidental College in Eagle Rock first met co-founder Gustavo Marrufo 20 years ago. Matusik was earning his two Advanced Bachelors, one in Fine Art and the other in Politics. Marrufo and Matusik shared a passion for art, humanism, and politics. Both shared similarities to approaching life\u2019s challenges, embracing their experiences and cherishing every opportunity to grab destiny by the reigns and riding out its possibilities.<\/p>\n

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\u00a9 Andrew Matusik<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n

Fifteen years since they went on their separate paths\u2026 Matusik and Marrufo are back together and have teamed up to open the M2 Gallery with a vision of a \u201cliving\u201d gallery. The traditional gallery formula of pretension and hype would be thrown out the window. M2\u2019s goal is to bring patrons and enthusiast closer to the Art and the Artist. Maruffo who\u2019s background was in Band Management, Event Production, and Night Clubs, was interested in Art as an \u201cevent\u201d to be experienced by all. Marrufo explains, \u201cArt to me it is the true universal language. No matter how young or old you are, where you live, or how much education or money you have\u2026 Visual art has the ability to transcend words and have a direct impact on the heart mind and soul. Art should be apart of everyone\u2019s lives.\u201d With this goal in mind the M2 Gallery opened its doors and its mission.<\/p>\n

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\u00a9 Andrew Matusik<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n

M2 has not only opened a gallery to visually experience images, but also a place in North Los Angeles for artist and art minded to converge and enjoy conversation, books, internet, and a diversity of artistry. Since opening the Gallery in January, M2 has hosted events with \u201cspoken-word\u201d poets, classical music, Sitar music, and has begun a \u201cspeaker series\u201d. M2 has ambitious plans to introduce \u201cpop-up\u201d galleries in Los Angeles and New York, with an eclectic group of cross discipline artist sharing their talents to one theme that the art enthusiast can experience and even participate.<\/p>\n

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\u00a9 Andrew Matusik<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n

The M2 Gallery will be a living-breathing entity in Los Angeles, M2 desires to feed the community stimulation and thought, and the patrons and participants will nourish us with sponsorship and inspiration. M2 provides structure both physically and organizationally; it is our goal to give the artist of North Los Angeles and their patrons a place to gather, converse, debate, celebrate, experience and showcase their work.<\/p>\n

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\u00a9 Andrew Matusik<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n

M2 Gallery\u2019s physical space exhibits fine art photography and is located in the Highland Park\/Eagle Rock community of Los Angeles. Eagle Rock is nestled between Pasadena and Glendale just north of Silver Lake. Co-Founder, Gustavo Marrufo, grew up in the neighborhood and has witnessed the Business Renaissance of Pasadena and the artistic community\u2019s adoption of Downtown, Silver lake, Mt. Washington, Highland Park, and now Eagle Rock as \u201cthe\u201d location to live and work for artistic Angelenos. In 2004, Art Walk Los Angeles was born. In a few short years an urban cultural phenomenon was popin. So much buzz was building around this explosion in interest for the arts that Art Basel seriously was considering moving from Miami to Los Angeles. The explosion of interest in gallery hoping a social event has spread and the M2 gallery is now part of the Second Saturday Art Walk that 30 galleries participate in the North Los Angles area.<\/p>\n

Andrew did the photo comping retouch for the Harper’s BAZAAR China “Fly Me to the Moon”<\/strong><\/a> Editorial by Benjamin Kanarek.<\/p>\n

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Harper’s BAZAAR China \u00a9 Benjamin-Kanarek, comping by Andrew Matusik<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n

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Location: 4501 Eagle Rock Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90041<\/strong> for appointments contact contact: andrew@m2gallery.org<\/strong> Hours of operation: Tuesday \u2013 Saturday 11am to 5pm Monday & Sunday by appointment only<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

M2 Gallery in Los Angeles is presenting a retrospective of surrealist imagery from Andrew Matusik.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16820,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[37],"tags":[846,3,159,97,836,161,648,36],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paG8MM-4ne","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8711,"url":"https:\/\/thebkmag.com\/rebuild\/benjamin-kanarek-work\/mae-lapres-fly-moon-benjamin-kanarek-harpers-bazaar-china\/","url_meta":{"origin":16816,"position":0},"title":"Mae Lapres in \u201cFly me to the Moon\u201d by Benjamin Kanarek for Harper\u2019s BAZAAR China","author":"Benjamin Kanarek","date":"June 26, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Mae Lapres by Benjamin Kanarek for Harper's BAZAAR China in \u201cFly me to the Moon\u201d and the Behind the Scenes video","rel":"","context":"In "Benjamin Kanarek Work"","block_context":{"text":"Benjamin Kanarek Work","link":"https:\/\/thebkmag.com\/rebuild\/category\/benjamin-kanarek-work\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thebkmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Mae-Lapres-Harpers-BAZAAR-China-by-Benjamin-Kanarek-00-560x359.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thebkmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Mae-Lapres-Harpers-BAZAAR-China-by-Benjamin-Kanarek-00-560x359.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thebkmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Mae-Lapres-Harpers-BAZAAR-China-by-Benjamin-Kanarek-00-560x359.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":9735,"url":"https:\/\/thebkmag.com\/rebuild\/benjamin-kanarek-work\/chanel-luana-teifke-vogue-brazil-benjamin-kanarek\/","url_meta":{"origin":16816,"position":1},"title":"Model Luana Teifke in VOGUE Brazil October 2010 by Benjamin Kanarek","author":"Benjamin Kanarek","date":"October 14, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Before the cold hits us all, we sheltered in a cozy ice cave with the musical instrument furniture-sculptures of Pierre Arman presented in the Arman Suite at the H\u00f4tel Lutetia. 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