Nevervista

ghastly city sleep on tour

2010-10-16T12:28:00.001-07:00

follow my band, ghastly city sleep, as we make our way across the united states on our second full US tour!
themessengersaid.blogspot.com

2010-06-12T11:53:00.000-07:00

One of my favorite artists::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::;

Recent Work

2010-01-11T20:32:00.000-08:00

Here's a look at some images I am sorting through for my Drawing and Painting portfolio. (Some works date as far back to 2007 because the painting potion is reinforcing a single concept or movement.)

Matt Boyle - Recent Works

Flyer for Cutlery / Matt Boyle show

2009-11-18T19:24:00.001-08:00

New §Θ╚PAinting♪

2009-11-18T19:17:00.000-08:00

Just finished a long-overdue commission for Interior Designer Kim Jackson in South Carolina. A sister-project to the All Molecules Light AS Air Diptych in Los Angeles, this Triptych took about a year to complete and is composed of three 30" x 30" oil on canvas paintings (total size 30" x 90"). This is an extremely complex product of overlapping layers and geometric planning.

Brooklyn Series

2009-03-22T19:34:00.000-07:00

I have begun a series of watercolors---- based on photos I've taken of brooklyn buildings, here's a sample of the work thus far....

Art Show

2009-02-17T11:22:00.000-08:00

In conjunction with Seasick Mama, an art-to-apparel company in brooklyn, I will be participating in a group show at 303 Grand Gallery on Thursday, March 5th.
I will be showing new work, oil on wood/canvas, along with my illustrations I've submitted for production in the new seasick mama line.

Nevervista

2009-02-13T06:19:00.000-08:00

♥ ↑ ► I have decided to create a new blog devoted only to my artwork, my music, and everything that influences both.
◘ ○ ♪ ♫ I will be posting secret sketchbook drawings as i make them, along with archives of older sketchbooks.
{ ▲ : I will also be documenting my portfolio as it continues to grow, while constantly fighting the battle of downsizing, focusing, and honing my identity.

Julie Heffernan

2009-02-12T08:28:00.000-08:00

Julie Heffernan graduated from Yale & makes paintings that speak to me.

I love how hopelessly complex these piles of flora & fauna appear to be, all in romantic technicolor

Sylvia Ji

2009-02-12T08:07:00.000-08:00

Sylvia Ji attended Academy of Art Institute in San Francisco. Like Kawasaki, she lets the wood grain show through transparent layers of the erotic art noveau. I'm fond of masks, and I just love her misfits skull faces.

Audrey Kawasaki

2009-02-12T08:03:00.000-08:00

Audrey Kawasaki paints beautiful erotic art noveau portraits on wood panels.
She attended the Pratt Institute for two years before deciding that the NY art scene was too conceptual for her tastes. Every now and again, I'm delighted to see her chanelling Ernst Henkel, who is ever popular these days!

Laura Sue Phillips

2009-02-12T07:41:00.000-08:00

Laura Sue Phillips graduated from Hunter, and her work is in watercolor. She approaches the medium through realism, which is common for watercolor masters (i'm always interested in ways to challenge that) but her edgy self-portraits in intimate settings with her dog and the way it challenges the viewer's notions of taboo are what i most admire.

reminds me of a sketch i made a couple years ago....

Laura also makes these watercolor "pattern paintings" which must be compass-drawn and look very similar to my machinavista works. I was really excited to see these.

Paloma Crousillat

2009-02-12T07:37:00.000-08:00

Paloma Crousillat was born in Lima and graduated from SVA. I am particularly fond of her drawings ---- her line-work and architecture in crisis series, and her "telescopes." This particular image seems to be subject to lens distortion, the way it's perspective pours out of the corner.

Bailey Saliwanchik

2009-02-12T07:31:00.000-08:00

Bailey Saliwanchik makes dreamy art nouveau paintings

Sketchbooks

2009-02-12T07:27:00.000-08:00

>>>>>browse artist sketchbooks forEVr<<<<<.

James Jean

2009-02-12T07:22:00.000-08:00

Do you share my deep love and fascination with artist's sketchbooks?
yes?
well, then, please take a look at artist James Jean ---- he has posted some very beautiful sketches str8 from his moleskines.
---not to mention his amazing finished works.
all quite lovely.

Julie Mehretu

2009-01-27T13:48:00.000-08:00

The aesthetic connection between Sarah Sze and Julie Mehretu is almost seamless.
Mehretu is one of my all-time favorite painters, it's easy to see why.
I've had the pleasure of viewing her work first-hand at MoMA, and it's scale is very important... her work is huge.

Sarah Sze

2009-01-27T12:53:00.000-08:00

One of my favorite contemporary artists, who i stumbled upon while wandering through the internets, is Sarah Sze. This is the stuff of dreams.
It's tough for me to get into installation, though I fancy myself an installation artist of sorts... i'm also really squeemish about sculpture. Perhaps this is why i'm so captivated by Sze, being both of those things and more + evoking images of Lebbeus Woods, Lee Bontecou, Aleksandr Vesnin, Kandinsky, Julie Mehretu & Hannah Hoch, just to name a few.

Paul Antonson

2009-01-26T13:59:00.000-08:00

I'll be featuring some posts on artists and illustrators that i like & the why's.
Check out Village Voice's illustrator Paul Antonson, i like his sketchbook pages.
For the past who knows how many years, Paul has made the voice cover for his Mermaid Parade illustrations.
I've always been a big fan of sketchbooks, leafing through other's, obsessively cataloging and gushing over my own, which i keep next to me on shelves at all times.
Sketchbooks are personal, revealing, honest, magical and precious.

CharmingBlog

2009-01-26T06:42:00.000-08:00

Charming Wall is a great little gallery in the West Village with a really fun flash site. Their artists are neat too. Check it out!

Wenceslaus Hollar

2009-01-26T06:27:00.000-08:00

I just found out who the artist responsible for my Facebook avatar is.
Wenceslaus Hollar was a Czech etcher born in Prague who lived much of his life in London. He created close to 3000 etchings in his lifetime, all beautiful works on a wide range of subjects.

Sadly, he died in poverty, "his last recorded words being a request to the bailiffs that they would not carry away the bed on which he was dying." - wikipedia

Here is a great collection of his works from the University of Toronto.

NEW DRAWINGS

2008-12-11T19:08:00.000-08:00

I have begun to post the latest drawings from my current collection "Beauty Book".
My aim is to finish a book filled with my most meticulously detailed work to date.
I started this book while I was on tour with Ghastly City Sleep... we were out for 32 days, and travelled all around the continental United States.
One of the things that struck me most was the vegetation in California! We visited the beaches in Los Angeles & San Luis Obispo, and I couldn't believe the diversity of the costal plant life, what a change from the East Coast.
I started sketching bits and pieces of plants here and there, and spent a lot of time drawing details while sitting at bars in music venues before performing.
The result is this collection, which is still ongoing.

Take a Peek♥

Visit my Print Shop ♥

New Limited Edition Print

2008-12-03T14:04:00.000-08:00

Hello!

I am back from touring the United States with Ghastly City Sleep. I had an amazing trip and will be posting about that soon.
First I wanted to tell you about a new print I have available on my etsy store just in time for the holidays.
I just finished a brand new Linoleum Block Cut of an Octopus with leafy tentacles. Each print is treated with a hand-painted watercolor wash in either flesh tint or Ocre Yellow before printing. The Octupus is printed in a dark red-brown.

I am limiting these to 50 copies, and each one is signed and numbered by yours truly.

These prints can be purchased from my etsy store

happy holidays & check back soon for tour pictures!

♥matt

The L.A. Job

2008-09-18T19:19:00.000-07:00

From Los Angeles

Well, we finished installing "All Molecules Light as Air" at iolo headquarters in Los Angeles, CA. Everything went smooth and was a lot of fun! I'd like ot say thank you to Dan, Noah, Roxanne, Andrew, Tim at Designer Framing, and Leila♥

From Los Angeles

Photos from the whole trip can be viewed here:
http://picasaweb.google.com/utieshell/LosAngeles#

Final !

2008-09-04T09:29:00.000-07:00

All Molecules Light as Air, Oil on Canvas Diptych, 120 in x 60 in (2008)

Here's a look at the Iolo Commission in it's final state before shipping.

L.A. Comission

2008-08-21T13:34:00.000-07:00

Another update on the L.A. Comission. The piece is almost complete.
Here are some images:

Arts

2008-08-13T10:41:00.000-07:00

I have been working on a big commission for Iolo in Los Angeles for the past two months.
The work will be a total of ten feet by five feet, covering two canvases, mounted on a sixteen-foot wide wall.

I'm really excited about how this has evolved - i started with a grid and began to lay out my "shifting panels" layers, developing a degree of transparency and evoking movement.

now, out of a seam in the diagonal axis of the composition, comes a flood of life at different scales, mingling with old eroded architectural elements and buildings.
When this is complete it should read in a number of ways, one of which could be that this giant mass of organic life and buildings is actually one large living organism itself, camouflaged by matching colors to a very rigid orthogonal grid...

new

2008-07-02T10:37:00.000-07:00

I just finished a new Coney Island copper bracelet design.
Plus three more unique designs.
More pics at dominant fiction...

available for purchase at my etsy store:
arbor9fiction.etsy.com

In the Works

2008-06-03T05:59:00.000-07:00

I have begun hand-engraving copper bracelets with my illustrations.
I am offering these pieces for sale in my etsy store.

I make them one-by-one, so it takes a little while for new ones to show up.
I am engraving on three different sizes:
3/4" wide, 1/2", & 3/8"

I have also placed a few prints on the site as well.
for the complete list of my drawings available in prints, please visit the dominant fiction store - we just gave it a new makeover!
arbor9fiction.etsy.com
dominantfiction store

♥m

Touring! Part 1

2008-04-08T06:54:00.000-07:00

I recently returned from a two-week tour with the band I'm in , Ghastly City Sleep.
We took a ton of photos and video, but most of it was lost, swallowed by the computer-crash deities.

I have some stories to tell, and images to post, but for now, take a look at all the polaroids i snapped! Thanks to Leila for buying me tons of film before the trip!♥
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/25069116@N02/sets/72157604271882036/

enjoy!

ART SHOW SATURDAY

2008-01-31T10:59:00.000-08:00

i have contributed 3 new oil paintings to the "Found in Brooklyn" art exhibit at
Freddy's Bar and Backroom
485 Dean St. (@6th ave)
Brooklyn, NY

The opening is this saturday, 7-9pm

Here's a link to the host, Found In Brooklyn blog!

It's just southeast of the Atlantic Ave Station, just off Flatbush Ave...
I'm pretty excited. I have a number of projects on the horizon, including some marketing of new dominant fiction goods handmade by yours truly.
been working on the website here and there, adding new drawings and paintings..
and most importantly, i've been making a lot of new work. by this time next year, i should have a whole new world of work which has been stewing for the past two years.

تلّ

2007-12-06T12:52:00.000-08:00

pARdon me, this has been a rough week.
I am finally going to exhibit new paintings, looks like February.
Something new – I have started oil painting, which for years has eluded me. I’m very excited about this new series, all different sizes, some of the themes include:
تلّ tells
Sea monsters
Brooklyn architecture
Buffalo, NC (the lost underwater town of)
Melting ice caps
The fall of civilization
The subsequent rise of fish and other aquatic life
Collectable architectural portraits

The show might be in Brooklyn

More on this as it develops

♥