acrylic on panel
7 1/2" x 7 1/2"
$200
acrylic on panel
7 1/2" x 7 1/2"
$200
acrylic on panel
7 1/2" x 7 1/2"
$200
acrylic on panel
7 1/2" x 7 1/2"
$200
Michael Matarese
Michael Matarese graduated with honors from Delaware College of Art and Design and from the University of Delaware, where he received the Fine Arts and Visual Communications Faculty Award and numerous honors in juried undergraduate exhibitions. He has received an emerging artist fellowhip from the Delaware Division of the Arts for the year of 2007. Last year he was awarded a residency fellowship at the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, VT. His work has been exhibited in Wilmington, DE at the eleventh and orange gallery and the DuPont Theatre. He has participated in group shows at Gallery MC and Organization of Independent Artists, both in New York City, and the Afif Gallery in Philadelphia. In January, his work was part of the Arlington Arts Center exhibition "Fresh Paint: Process and Possibility". He also is the co-creator of Lo-Fi Gallery, an independent studio/gallery space in downtown Wilmington, DE.
Artist's Statement
"Much of my work begins with a specific starting point; a kind of problem to solve. I generally do not spend that much time debating the reasoning behind these starting points, though they usually represent remnants of people, be it a handprint on paper or stockpiles of post-consumer waste. The starting points also reference the handmade quality that is essential to my work. The important part emerges in the time and specificity put into the manipulation and embellishment of those original starting points through all sorts of different filters--like copy machines, scanners, projectors and rigorous tracings and re-tracings; in a way, making a mountain out of a molehill.
I generally carry out these projects within the realm of painting and drawing, although I have been working with sculpture and installation recently and see it as being just as relevant to the work as painting. I think the idea of elongating a certain moment in time is what always has guided my work, no matter what the medium. Having been schooled as a painter, though, that history is always present within my work."