Matt leines biography
Matt Leines (born in New Jersey, lives and works in Brooklyn, New York) passed through other east coast visual centers, earned a degree from Rhode....
Leines, Matt > Matt Leines ARTIST PAGE with links to monographs, museum exhibition catalogs, criticism, catalogues raisonnes, related publications.Painter. Drawer. Thinker. Sleeper. Pro-wrestling enthusiast.
“I developed a lazy eye when I was young and because of that I see things differently.”
—Matt Leines
From the dawn of this century, Matt Leines has produced a steady flow of fine art to delight and confound viewers — drawings and paintings rich in color and detail — exploring the kaleidoscope of memory and outer zones of imagination.
Matt Leines is an American Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in Their work is currently being shown at The Drawing Center in New York.
He possesses a workmanlike approach to symbolism and surrealism, the poet’s ability to realize longed-for images, and a passion for theatrical sports. The world moves in patterns, faces unfixed, lines dancing across pyramid walls.
Perspective is subservient to a unique modernist iconography; his characters operate in a kind of abstract epic or post-Columbian codex that blurs pure myth and daily life.
“Matt is mapping the collective art of a non-existent tribe in a no-man’s-land far away.Exotic and invincible.”
—Gary Panter
Observant, vibrant, obsessively int