GAMING THE TILT :: Walter Matthews

Tempus Project Space

Saturday, June 29, 2019

Gaming the Tilt is an exhibition of recent paintings by Walter Matthews. By using pours, various airbrush techniques, staining, and, at times, working on the backside of the unprimed canvas/reversing the surface, Matthews explores the ways in which language – textual and visual – often fail us. Leaving traces of his reversals, indecisions, and rooted in the vernacular of his lived experience, Gaming the Tilt seeks new languages that neither proclaim nor insist, but invite multiple subjectivities.

Walter Matthews is an artist and instructor living and working in Tampa, FL. He received his BFA in painting from the Ringling College of Art and Design and his MFA from the University of South Florida in 2017. Matthews attended the artist residency program at the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture in 2017 and was the first artist-in-residence at Coco Hunday.