An invitation to visit a Richard Neutra private residence in Los Angeles, photographed in May

Matthew Watson

BornNationalityBased In

1981N/ABrooklyn

Biography

Matthew Watson makes exquisitely rendered paintings that are a complex form of social portraiture. His portraits of artists, writers, curators and collectors, interiors, art objects, books and other cultural ephemera, soften the border between subject and object. Watson inserts himself into a fluid chain of relations –– social, economic, power –– frequently working on commission or by invitation to start a painting, in turn producing objects that relay back into the very flows that led to their construction. ...

Selected Artworks

Matthew WatsonAn invitation to visit a Richard Neutra private residence in Los Angeles, photographed in May, 202144.45 x 35.56cm15500 USD

Matthew WatsonAn invitation to visit a A commission to paint a tattoo, photographed at a gallery in Milan, July 21, , Neutra private residence in Los Angeles, photographed in May 2021, 201635.5 x 30.5cm15500 USD

Matthew WatsonAn invitation to paint a Beranek Family glass paperweight in an artist’s apartment on 131st Street, New York, June 29 . Object produced at the Beranek Factory in the Czech Republic, 201530.5 x 25.4cm15500 USD

Matthew WatsonA painting of Akila, a purebred basenji, with an Eames folding screen in a writer's loft on 26th Street, New York, September 8, , introduced by a mutual friend and artist, 201443.2 x 35.8cm15500 USD