Matthew M. Cohen University of New Mexico, Albuquerque Matthew Cohen is currently completing his MFA at UNM, where he has been diagnosed terminally pre-cognizant. While this condition has not interfered with his ability to produce work, it has allowed him to locate the root of his photographic concerns between seeing film and viewing photographs. Cohen’s most recent exhibition, Conditions Unshaven, reveals a conundrum in which the artist is enamored with the notion that the production of photographic meaning resides solely within the object. To this, Cohen says, “The artist cannot avoid becoming a viewer in response to his own work- one who must observe those who would observe Him.” Working at the Tamarind Institute, Cohen has continued to investigate this anachronism Cohen’s printmaking resembles graphic forms of film noire and ‘dime store’ detective stories. He has created fictions about the existence of other, collateral fictions - in which characters never really exist nor retain the ability for comment.