CULTUREEDIT AUCTION #3
matthew sandager
Matthew Sandager, Polaroid 26, 2025
Details
watercolor on paper
Image: 6 x 6 inches
Paper size: 9 x 12 inches
Ships from New York City
About the series:
Taking pictures in the dark, in moments of intimacy and spontaneity, this series evolved from a collection of erotic Polaroids shot with lovers, friends, and co-conspirators—quick flashes of connection, desire, curiosity, and play. The instant photographs, with their sharp flash and candid compositions, became the foundation for a new series of watercolors: lush, sexy, and slightly unreal.
In painting them, I slow the image down, allowing gesture, fluidity, and abstraction to soften the gaze. Watercolor lets the edges blur, the skin glow, and the boundaries between bodies and backgrounds dissolve. These paintings live in the tension between the explicit and the abstract—landscapes of intimacy.
At its core, this is a celebration of queerness, of mess, of softness. These works are about play, about bodies as sites of joy and experimentation, about the erotic as something worth lingering in.
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CULTUREEDIT AUCTION #3
matthew sandager
Matthew Sandager is an award-winning artist whose work in painting, film, and animation includes commissioned projects for Sesame Street, New York Magazine, Target, The New York Review of Books, and John Derian. His work has been featured in festivals and galleries around the world. He was an artist in resident in LMCC’s 2023 Workspace Residency program in New York City. Through filmmaking, Matthew reignited his first love—painting. He works primarily in watercolor, drawn to its immediacy, expressiveness, and unpredictability. Much of his recent work is inspired by time spent on Fire Island, where the shifting light, vibrant community, and layered history of the landscape continue to inform his queer outlook and artistic voice.
