Spotlight Artist

Matthew Cole

Northeast
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Featured in New American Paintings

Artist Statement

Throughout my work, the mystical and reality coexist. I employ drawing, collage, and various printmaking techniques, to then create psychologically charged, narrative driven paintings - fusing figuration, interiors and landscape to create settings shaped by layering, distortion, and deliberate visual interruption. In the studio, I weave together personal material with found imagery and art historical references, using composite imagery to tell stories that explore broader human psychology, in an evolving collage of the remembered and the invented. My work represents the fragmented nature of the perception of memories, dreams, and the profound human experience.

Artist's Additional works

Works shared by the artist outside of their featured New American Paintings selections

acrylic on canvas
Karl's Spring - 2024acrylic on canvas, 58 x 68 inches
acrylic on canvas
Language of the Recluse - 2026acrylic on canvas, 18 x 24 inches
acrylic and gouache on panel
Okayama (2) - 2019acrylic and gouache on panel, 24 x 16 inches
acrylic on panel
Interior Life - 2019acrylic on panel, 8 x 10 inches
acrylic on canvas
The Trees Before the Seas - 2023acrylic on canvas, 25 x 20 inches

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Education

  • Bachelor's in Painting, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA, US
  • Lamar Dodd School of Art, UGA, Cortona, IT

Residencies

  • Pouch Cove Foundation, Pouch Cove, NL, CA
  • Lower East Side Printshop, New York, NY, US
  • Museum of Contemporary Art, Tucson, AZ, US

Solo Exhibitions

  • Cabin Fever, Beers London, London, GB

Selected Group Exhibitions

  • Black & White, Taymoure Grahne, Dubai, AE

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