
Spotlight Artist
Walter Eric Matthews
South
Artist Statement
For me the process of painting is a mode of thinking. Paintings
should sweat, they should exist in a state of anxiety that reflects
their maker.
I revel in the capacity of the hand and the automatic mark to
manifest forms arrived at through an ongoing dialogue with the
work itself. I search for paintings rather than executing them.
My sources range from illuminated manuscripts to late modernist
painting, frequencies, and airbrush techniques.
I do not linger needlessly when the conditions for discovery are
lost. I retune my painting practice, and a new cycle begins.
Artist's Additional works
Works shared by the artist outside of their featured New American Paintings selections


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