Matthew Anderson

I'm an American artist currently working out of my studio in South Korea where I've been for the past 20 years.
I primarily work in oil abstraction but also watercolor landscape painting.
My works are inspired by memories--mental images of landscapes that are recalled, reimagined and transfigured as paintings. These views are constructed not based on the order they appear in visual reality, but rather after filtering through thought and memory. The works attempt to depict visual recall of a scene(s) in fragmented, abridged, and altered perceptions reconstituted in one image.
Memories are often inaccurate and biased according to our beliefs, expectations and hopes, as well as our life experiences. How we process visual input is also affected by these personal characteristics. Ask two people to describe the exact same place they have both just visited and you will receive two differing descriptions regarding the details. What we recall, how we recall, and the hierarchy of importance are highly individualized.
These works are relatively devoid of any concrete representation and are intended to hint at rather than specify for the viewer. Functioning as suggestion for thought or feeling, it is up to the viewer to come to their...

Master of Fine Arts, Painting, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, USA 1996
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Painting, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, USA 1989

2021 Silent Spring, A Village Gallery, Incheon, South Korea
2020 그곳(There), Landscape Painting, Juried Exhibition, Art 9 Gallery, Jongro, Seoul, South Korea
2020 Rearrangements, Group Exhibition, J Gallery, J Art Center, Cheonan, South Korea
2019 (Solo Show) Transfigurations, White Birch Gallery(갤러리 자작나무), Seoul, South Korea
Dosi-Rock, Gallery Hwal, Hanwoori Culture Center, Seocho, Seoul, South Korea
BAMA Busan Annual Market of Art, Busan, South Korea
PLAS Plastic Arts Seoul, Coex Exhibition Hall, Seoul, South Korea
GIAF Gyeongnam International Art Fair, Changwon, South Korea
2018 15th Gongju International Art Exhibition, Limlip Museum, Gongju, South Korea
Cheek to Cheek, Nuguna Gallery (누구나갤러리), Suwon, South Korea
FLA International Artists Exhibition, Daejeon Museum of Modern History, South Korea
2017 Cheongju Art Fair/Cheongju Craft Biennale, South Korea
(Solo Show) Destination Jochiwon, Chimsan Art Space, Jochiwon, South Korea
2016 Four x Four, Cheong Rim Gallery (청림갤러리), Gwangmyeong, Seoul, South Korea
Chungbuk People’s Art Festival, Ochang Library Gallery, Ochang, Chungbuk, South Korea
2015 Public Air Group Exhibition, ArtFirm 653 Gallery(653예술상회), Cheongju, South Korea
Strangers Meet Strangers, Cheongj...