Matt Dukes Jordan

My tastes and interests and ideas are very eclectic. I got into modern art as a teenager; fell in love with both European Modern art (Picasso, Miro, the Surrealists, Dadaists, etc.) and with modern American art, especially the Pop Artists. While living in Los Angeles in the 1990s through 2013, I was engaged with the art scene and showed art in group shows in Silver Lake (Monkey House) and Burbank (Hyaena) and out in the Valley (A. Stuart Gallery). I had a solo show at Hyaena.

I studied and surveyed a primarily West-Coast art movement I prefer to call Lowbrow Art but it's also known as Pop Surrealism. My surveys took the form of 2 books published by Chronicle Books in San Francisco: Weirdo Deluxe (2005) and Weirdo Noir (2010). They are pop-art-historical books that I hope offer some real substance to readers. I also taught a class on Lowbrow Art history at Otis College of Art.

I love so many things about the West Coast. Cool modern home in canyons fascinate me so I have made some paintings of them -- dark and moody, inspired by David Lynch's films and early 19th-century Romantic art.

Living in an office on Hollywood Boulevard in a classic film-noir building (1930s) on Raymond Chandler Square (Cahuenga and Hollywood Boul...

I studied art and/or art history at Grinnell College, the University of Wisconsin, Madison and U.W.-Milwaukee, and the San Francisco Art Institute. I specifically studied filmmaking at the San Francisco Art Institute, Colorado College, and San Francisco State University.

Since 2000, I have been in group shows at Lucky Street Gallery, Key West, and Woodenhead in Key West.

I've been in group shows at Barrister's Gallery in New Orleans.

In Los Angeles I have shown in group shows at A. Stuart Gallery, Monkeyhouse Toys, and Hyaena.