Art Cards

A few years ago I created a series of Art Cards, small 2" x 3.5" collectible original artworks. Series 1 was comprised of about 150 cards, ALL HAND MADE, divided into sets of about 10 cards each.Squid set 1-10

Jellyfish set 1-10

Each card was signed & dated and labeled on the back with title, a "value" designation in terms of "stars", and the series number.

Maya Glyph set 1-9 + Bonus Jaguar


I sold a bunch of my cards while on tour with Ghastly City Sleep in the past two years.
It was an opportunity for me to create an accesible large body of work that retains its intimacy and detail. They were also easy to take on the road due to their size.

Minnows set 1-10

I am really intereseted in the idea of collectibles, multiples, and autonomous parts that combine to make a whole.

Paloma Crousillat

Paloma Crousillat was born in Lima and graduated from SVA. I am particularly fond of her drawings ---- her line-work and architecture in crisis series, and her "telescopes."

Audrey Kawasaki

 Audrey Kawasaki

Laura Sue Phillips

Laura Sue Phillips graduated from Hunter, and her work is in watercolor.

Sylvia Ji

Sylvia Ji

Shahzia Sikander

Shahzia Sikander

Rusudan Petviashvili

Thanks to Jessie for introducing me to Rusudan Petviashvili

Julie Heffernan

Julie Heffernan graduated from Yale.

Nevervista

I have decided to start a new blog.
an art blog.
nevervista.blogspot.com will focus primarily on my artwork and music, influences, and my developing portfolio.

Sketchbooks

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NEW DRAWINGS

I have begun to post the latest drawings from my current collection "Beauty Book".
My aim is to finish a book filled with my most meticulously detailed work to date.
I started this book while I was on tour with Ghastly City Sleep... we were out for 32 days, and travelled all around the continental United States.
One of the things that struck me most was the vegetation in California! We visited the beaches in Los Angeles & San Luis Obispo, and I couldn't believe the diversity of the costal plant life, what a change from the East Coast.
I started sketching bits and pieces of plants here and there, and spent a lot of time drawing details while sitting at bars in music venues before performing.
The result is this collection, which is still ongoing.

Take a Peek♥

Visit my Print Shop ♥

New Limited Edition Print

Hello!

I am back from touring the United States with Ghastly City Sleep. I had an amazing trip and will be posting about that soon.
First I wanted to tell you about a new print I have available on my etsy store just in time for the holidays.
I just finished a brand new Linoleum Block Cut of an Octopus with leafy tentacles. Each print is treated with a hand-painted watercolor wash in either flesh tint or Ocre Yellow before printing. The Octupus is printed in a dark red-brown.


I am limiting these to 50 copies, and each one is signed and numbered by yours truly.

These prints can be purchased from my etsy store

happy holidays & check back soon for tour pictures!

♥matt

perhaps that will get done

can't sleep tonight. my mind is just racing around too fast, for no particular reason. sometimes when i'm just lying there i feel as though i can see thousands of paintings into the future, and i know i'll never live that long. i can make tiny drawings and sketches to fill every page of every book on every shelf in this room, but you can only make a finite amount of well-thought out fully-realized finished projects that speak clearly for you before your body dies.
i get ideas a lot, ideas come to me very easily. when my creativity is at peak level i can dream up lots of things. i usually think to myself "someday perhaps that will get done." but there are so many of these thoughts, even if one pushes hard and is privledged enough to be able to work at realizing them, they will not all come to fruition.
the daily struggle is getting these things to pop out from under the soil. the soil is rich, but growing things is not at all easy. the dream is an endless forest, thick and thriving, bursting at its boundaries. the reality is a rich bed of soil filled with seeds, patches of a three-inch tall canopy of sprouts turn black to green.

The L.A. Job

From Los Angeles

Well, we finished installing "All Molecules Light as Air" at iolo headquarters in Los Angeles, CA. Everything went smooth and was a lot of fun! I'd like ot say thank you to Dan, Noah, Roxanne, Andrew, Tim at Designer Framing, and Leila♥

From Los Angeles

Photos from the whole trip can be viewed here:
http://picasaweb.google.com/utieshell/LosAngeles#

Final !

All Molecules Light as Air, Oil on Canvas Diptych, 120 in x 60 in (2008)

Here's a look at the Iolo Commission in it's final state before shipping.

L.A. Comission

Another update on the L.A. Comission. The piece is almost complete.
Here are some images:

Arts

I have been working on a big commission for Iolo in Los Angeles for the past two months.
The work will be a total of ten feet by five feet, covering two canvases, mounted on a sixteen-foot wide wall.

I'm really excited about how this has evolved - i started with a grid and began to lay out my "shifting panels" layers, developing a degree of transparency and evoking movement.





now, out of a seam in the diagonal axis of the composition, comes a flood of life at different scales, mingling with old eroded architectural elements and buildings.
When this is complete it should read in a number of ways, one of which could be that this giant mass of organic life and buildings is actually one large living organism itself, camouflaged by matching colors to a very rigid orthogonal grid...