Sulfur Studios is pleased to present Cognitive Decline, an exhibition by Matthew Mogle in our ON::View Pop Up Gallery. Mogle’s work explores the neurological effects of chronic Lyme disease on his memory. As time passes, the memory fog continues to grow. Mogle’s paintings use stickers to represent these memory fragments and form sentimental collections of life’s common experiences. These collections are romanticized narratives of the past fused with the artist’s cynical and melancholic views of the present. They reflect our obsessions of collecting expressions of personal identity and the burden of nostalgia. Like stickers, they are emblematic of what we choose to hold onto. 

Matthew Mogle was born in Athens, Illinois in 1977. He completed his M.F.A at the New York Academy of Art, Graduate School of Figurative Art and presently serves as the Foundations Director for the Betty Foy Sanders Department of Art at Georgia Southern University. Mogle uses art historical and pop-culture imagery to exploit attachments to nostalgia and construct romanticized narratives and recollections of self.  

Cognitive Decline will be on display in our ON::View Pop Up Gallery from February 2nd to February 28th, 2021, and can be seen any time of day or night in our Bull Street windows. There will be an Artist Talk on Sunday, February 14th at 2 pm via Instagram Live. Work from this exhibition will be available for sale on our website: www.sulfurstudios.org/matthewmogle