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Matt Phillips

Matt Phillips is a painter currently living in Northampton, MA. Matt's work approaches the concepts of sight, light, and illusion with a hand-hewn aesthetic that distills these oblique visual concepts into a tangible object. His paintings are playful, colorful, and often visually and physically overwhelming. But their collage construction, layering, and references to folk art and pop culture make them accessible. This merging of abstract thought and the celebration of D.I.Y. craft permits us to enjoy the playful nuances of color and form embedded in Matt's technique.

At Wingate Studio, Matt has exchanged the immediacy of his paintings for the hands-off meshing of flat layers inherent to intaglio printmaking. In his first print here, he has adapted masterfully to the challenges of etching, weaving together several disparate plates to create an undulating, captivating image that refuses to be literal or abstract. Guitar (Tele) is at once a portrait, an homage to the American quilt, and a geometric exploration of the relationship between sight and sound. We are looking forward to creating more Guitar inspired images with Matt in the future.

Matt has shown extensively in the U.S. at galleries on both coasts and in between. He currently teaches painting at Hampshire College in Amherst, MA. Images of his paintings and works on paper as well as links to publicity for upcoming exhibitions are available at his website here.

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