Matthew Green

I am a realist painter with a lean to the abstract, and I try to capture more than the physical structure of a building or landscape. I find the essence of a subject and show beauty in the nuances, often featuring the conflict of Nature versus Man.

It began with a fascination for found objects. It's the stuff that floats in on the tide, blows in on the wind or rises up from the soil; random objects, even buildings once centers of industry or tourist destinations, that are turned from useful to useless.

I can see the strength and allure in things and in their history, and I try to bring life back in. I want to show both the harsh realities and magnificent beauties in everyday life and our surroundings.

BFA Painting and Printmaking,
Rowan University, 1994

Architecture, New York Institute of Technology, 1990

Born in Teaneck in 1970, Matthew Green was primarily raised in New Jersey. He has lived in and around Philadelphia since the 1990s. Guided by a genuine curiosity and hunger for knowledge, interests and their influences on his paintings are varied but ever present; Matt is at once an outdoorsman and city lover, free spirited designer and meticulous producer. By day he has worked as an art director since 1999, and by night he paints and writes in his home studio where a record collection and nearness of family keep him inspired.

Gravers Lane Gallery
Center for Emerging Visual Artists
EilandArts
Galleria Deptford
Lana Santorelli Gallery
Off The Wall Gallery
The A Space
Gold Coast Art Fair
10th Street Laundromat
Race Street Café
Fusion Gallery
Grooveground
Qbix Gallery
Café Lift
Marco Polo Gallery
PII Gallery
Big Idea Gallery
Well-Fed Artists Gallery
No Bar Cafe