Matthew Beehler

Creative, dynamic, emotional, inspirational and innovative artist, with a cultural sensitivity to human diversity and globalization. Incorporating past present and future to produce art which make your heart beat!

My work is a compilation of life and near death experiences, fused together by spiritual connective tissue. My works is open, like a diary for others to read, exposing nerve endings and transmitting a response.

We tend to categorize and organize systems in an ordered fashion conforming to an acceptable existence, fearful of losing control and faltering in an imbalance of imperfection. I capture these uncontrolled moments of our existence. This acceptance becomes a terminal of raw innate energy where layers of imagery, emotions and experiences cultivate meaning in a complex abstract nature.

There is an honesty of expression in my work which holds no boundaries, limitations enclosures, or apparent edges. The multi dimensional relationships of space will leave the viewer with a fresh charge of energy, eagerly awaiting the arrival of his next move.

And, finally, Creativity is paradoxical. To create, a person must have knowledge but forget the knowledge, must see unexpected connections in things but not have a m...

Ball State University:
College of Architecture and Planning

Environmental Design / Art + Architecture

2021:B.yond the Mask: Long Beach, CA 2021

2011: Matthew Beehler: SOLO, 686 digital images portraying the dynamic occurrence of life's unexpected pleasures. SOLO Building, Costa Mesa, CA

2010: Sketchbooks, WATG, Irvine, CA

2008: artist + architects sketchbooks,

2003: pigment, Camp, Costa Mesa, CA

1998: Synapse. Singapore

1998: quazi-utopia_a lego construction of utopian city, Ngee Ann Plaza, Singapore

1998: the garden wall murals, Substation, Singapore

1995-1996: reconstructed structures, Plush Pockets Billiards, Lake Forest, CA

1991: Time & Color, Rock'n Java, Costa Mesa, CA

1989: Ceramic Butterflies, Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, CA

1988: Functional Art by 3, Chapman College of Art, Orange, CA

1989: Dancing Pigs, Omnific Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA

1989: Young Architects Art, Gallery of Functional Art, Santa Monica, CA

1988: Obsessive Sitting Chamber, College of Architecture + Planning, Muncie IN

1986: Fea on a Poodles Back, Grey Light Alternative Theatre, Muncie, IN

1986: Dos Hombres une Femme, Grey Light Alternative Theatre, Muncie, IN

1986: React to Art, Ball State University, Muncie, IN

1995: Tilted Forest, Ball State University, Muncie, IN

1985: Publications:between LA + London / Docume...