Matias Cuevas

Born out of an epiphany in a hardware store, Matias Cuevas’s work draws from the traditions of painting, filtered through the everyday. As a painter, Matias finds the studio a sustainable environment for personal expression. There he performs a daily ritual of painting and art-making where fiction and reality collapse in order to transform the ordinary. Matias embraces the tradition of painting in a playful manner with his innovative technique of setting fire to and staining nylon carpet. Over time, Matías’s use of carpet, fire, and acrylics have allowed him to explore a certain mark-making immediacy, and a personal sense of depth and meaning. Whether visceral, whimsical, or ethereal his work is a celebration of his daily painting performance and a poetic ambition for self-expression. Espousing abstraction and chance, his work draws inspiration from artists like El Greco, Kandinsky, Miro, Chagall, Pollock, Yves Klein and the Washington Color School.

Exhibitions of Cuevas work have been held at  Leyndecker Gallery in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Alderman Exhibitions in Chicago, and (e)merge Artist Platform in Washington DC. His work has been included in group exhibitions at El Museo del Barrio in New York, Lehmann Maupin Gallery in New York, and The Green Gallery in Milwaukee.

Courtesy of Cuevas Tilleard Projects