Mathew Tucker

Lives and works in Wilton, CT, USA

Artist statement

Mathew Tucker Artist Statement Painting is like solving a puzzle or working through a thought that is just on the tip of my tongue. It becomes a way of investigating and mapping out my ideas, experiences and surroundings. Much of my early life was spent traveling through different countries and changing environments, so I developed an interest in understanding my own sense of place, and this has become a common theme in my work. Landscapes and interiors often form the content of my images, and they complement painting as a vehicle to investigate space, depth, form and layers. My paintings highlight the formal, structural, compositional elements of the image, and are reflexive of the process involved. By focusing on these component parts and moving between flatness, depth and illusion, the paintings transcend the content of the imagery and become ‘meta-paintings’; paintings about painting and the experience of being present — looking and seeing. Series Descriptions In the last two years, my work has focused on re-imagining landscapes as though looking through a window, mirror or door. I’ve been using these rectangular portals as framing devices as a way of interrupting the pictorial space. I like the idea of giving the image some kind of reflexivity, as if it is pointing to its own artifice. This plays with a broader metaphor of our internal experiences of looking out upon an external, separate, physical world. I usually like to invent a landscape, but will occasionally...

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