Inside The Cafe.Bar

Matthew Brannon

Cafe.Bar.Contemporary is a Work of Aet

New York artist Matthew Brannon has given us possibly the most stylish art café in the country.He has designed murals, a screen and curtains that suggest a 50s American advertising aesthetic – sharp, sleek and sexy – and the lifestyles it invoked. Coffee cups, typewriters, flight and train tickets are the props for a fictionally glamorous lifestyle. Brannon’s work turns the Café Bar customers into the protagonists of chic yet cynical short stories. Blank notepads suggest that they are about to be written by us all.

Matthew Brannon is a painter based in New York City. Brannon studied at the University of California graduating with a BA in 1995, and completed his MFA in 1999 at Columbia University in New York. His work has been exhibited at galleries and museums including Kunsthalle Dusseldorf and the Badischer Kunstverein in Germany, the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, PS1 Contemporary Art Center in New York, The Royal Academy in London, and MAK in Vienna