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Drawing, Ink on Paper
Size: 8.5 W x 10 H x 0.1 D in
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Revealing my process, I have forever had a love/hate relationship with using text as a visual element in my artwork. I love channeling all sorts of disparate impulses, and sometimes words flow through me like an amateur improv poet. But learning to be selective with the messaging has been extremely challenging. Even if the words spill forth in mere whimsy, I still believe that it is possible to train our subconscious filters. I want the text to work visually as a relevant component of the composition, but I also want the words and phrases to make you laugh, or empathize, or query. I want you to feel rewarded for having read my words, but I so often worry that I’m being too didactic. You’re seeing all of that inner conflict playing out on a page in this piece. Ink pen and marker on paper. 2013. 10 x 8 1/2
Drawing:Ink on Paper
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:8.5 W x 10 H x 0.1 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
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Matt Woods is a contemporary painter. His figurative and narrative works attempt to harness his own stream of consciousness towards images that reveal simple, universal stories of adversity and perseverance. In his abstract works, he sees himself as an archeologist of paint and process, repeatedly adding and subtracting layers to a variety of surfaces, hunting for visual splendor and order in the frantic discord. His work balances soft, careful mark making, often combined with violent, destructive processes, to achieve a result which mirrors his view that life is a marriage of exaltation and pain. The canvas materials Matt chooses are often reclaimed pieces of wood from structures that come with their own embedded histories, like an old, well-used easel found at a yard sale, or an abandoned skateboard ramp found in the middle of the desert. These ghosts that accompany the materials call out to have their stories influence the marks made by the artist, adding further buried layers of interest and complexity to the work.
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