Matthew Cox- Embroidered X-Rays

Matthew Cox is a Philadelphia based artist, who creates unusual artworks using medical x-rays and embroidery, forming “a darkly comic and anachronistic impression of the human condition in the twenty-first century”. Cox studied at the Parsons School of Design in New York, before receiving the Pew Charitable Trusts Fellowship in Painting and taking part in various exhibitions in the New Orleans Museum of Art, the Pentimenti Gallery in Philadelphia and the Georgetown College Art Gallery. His work is inspired by contrast between the materiality of the plastic acetate of an x-ray and the soft tactility of cloth and thread- “There’s a wide historical context, one ancient, decorative, and artisanal, the other contemporary and devoid of aesthetic intention. By simply placing one of these materials on top of the other the understood purpose of each is redefined”.