Pacific Coast
Spotlight Artist
Matthew Belk
Pacific Coast
Artist Statement
I create an intricate system of open-ended narratives that lodge
themselves in a myriad of conceptual drawing and painting
techniques. My goal is to use unusual things to shed an unusual
light on the way we live. I’m going to make a picture, then I have
all these tools and ideas built up and I harvest them. Like a
chameleon, I change my skin based upon my atmosphere. I allow
for outside forces and source material to enter my work by setting
myself up to be in a flow state that allows me to discover different
portals through which to enter and explore new thoughts.
These methods can be maddening, but for the split second that
everything turns on, the lights get brighter and the body and mind
tingle, you realize that the struggle is necessary to reach nirvana.
Rinse and repeat.
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