Matthew Neil Gehring's Mixed Business will be accompanied by a full color catalogue that includes a Director's forward by Robin Stout and an essay on the work by Thomas Micchelli. (photo courtesy of the artist) Matthew Neil Gehring: Mixed Business Opening: Saturday, September 3rd, 4 to 6 pm September 3 - September 25, 2016 Stout Projects is pleased to present Mixed Business , a solo exhibition of New York painter, Matthew Neil Gehring. Matthew Neil Gehring’s provocative new works are energy cells, exuding a punch derived from a deep interest in color, its slippery, if not fictional nature, and its similarity to sound. In this work, scale is volume control, color and movement are pitch, tempo, and timbre. Drawing inspiration from Goethe’s statement (and a nod to Bowie) that “sound and vision are two rivers that flow from the same mountain", this body of work is at once reflective and action oriented with elusive and often...