Based in Brooklyn with his wife Mary and their aptly-named dog Mohawk, Matt has traded his years-long Hoboken studio since he now has the space to work at home. His artistic pursuits span from canvas to camera lens, specializing in sports and fitness photography, with homebrewing beer rounding out his creative outlets.

A little about Matt's work:

In a world that often demands specialization, I remain stubbornly devoted to exploration. My oil paintings, predominantly portraits, are explorations of human complexity, each face a new terrain capturing more shadow than light while revealing inner depths that words alone cannot express. What remains constant is not what I paint, but how I see.

I am drawn to the spaces between things: the moment before the storm breaks, the silence after a difficult conversation, the charged emptiness of an abandoned room. Through my work, I seek to capture these liminal moments where emotion crystallizes into something tangible yet mysterious.

Oil paint provides the perfect medium for this investigation—its richness, its depth, its reluctance to dry too quickly allows me to build layers of meaning and atmosphere. My background in portrait photography has honed my ability to anticipate precisely how light interacts with the human form—where shadows will pool in the hollow of a collarbone, how highlights will catch the ridge of a cheekbone, the subtle gradient of light across a forehead. This photographic eye translates into paintings where the manipulation of light and shadow creates works that invite viewers to linger, to peer into the darkness and find meaning in what might initially appear as absence.

While I focus primarily on portraiture, my refusal to confine myself to identical compositions or emotional expressions stems not from restlessness but from an insatiable curiosity about the human condition. Each new face presents a different story to tell, a different emotional landscape to navigate. The shifting of subjects keeps my approach fresh and my perspective sharp, preventing the deadening effect of routine while allowing me to continually refine my technical execution.

What unifies my work is not the subjects themselves but the feeling they evoke—that sense of dramatic tension, of something significant happening just beyond the canvas edge. I am interested in the emotional resonance of visual experience, how the quality of light falling across a face can reveal character, history, and inner conflict with subtle yet profound impact.

In an age of relentless brightness and optimism, I offer instead a space for contemplation of the full spectrum of human experience. My paintings invite viewers to acknowledge the beauty inherent in melancholy, the comfort found in darkness, and the profound connections possible when we allow ourselves to fully experience the world's complexities without looking away.