Bent Gathering the Bony Apples: Works by Matthew Woodward June 11, 2010

Large-scale drawings featuring architectural facades from past eras. Matthew Woodward's work is an overarching and reconstructive study of architectural details such as decorative finials and cast-iron work that are both contemporary and in conversation with the aesthetic of Frank Lloyd Wright, a fellow Chicagoan. The work included in 'Bent Gathering the Bony Apples' is site-specific and taken directly from the same Chicago side-streets and buildings that Wright walked and was influenced by. It is not only responsive to Wright and his Prairie School design, but is also complementary to the intense craftsmanship and design-logic of one of the twentieth century's greatest and most widely known designers and architects.