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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 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. A second guitar print is now underway at Wingate, and we look forward to pulling a B.A.T. soon.

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.

In August 2009 Matt worked with friends Meghan Brady and Andy Ness to produce the first group-collaborative woodcut print produced here at Wingate. Check out the images below.




 




Guitar (Tele), 2009
trial proof
six color aquatint with scraping and burnishing
published by Wingate Studio
22 x 30 inches (plate size)

This print is now available. Please contact us for more information.

Untitled, 2009

This untitled print from August 2009 is the product of several intense days of woodcutting, proofing, and printing, and represents our first effort to produce a relief rpint in collaboration with multiple artists. Meghan Brady, Andy Ness, and Matt Phillips created the image together, carving both the black and red blocks ar a group. This project gave us the chance to work in woodcut as well, a less common medium at Wingate Studio. In the process, we developed some new techniques for editioning a relief print on our French Tool etching press.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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