Jason Matherly

"21-4" Mixed Media Wall Sculpture painting- yellow, orange, pink, purple, lilac

2021

12.5" x 19" Acrylic on muslin over mdf This was the last of a half dozen pieces made in 2017 using muslin that was stained prior to being stretched across the fiberboard elements....

12" x 12.5” Acrylic on muslin over mdf I must have been looking through sketches of tulip bulbs when this shape suggested itself to me. My family’s house is pink and green, like an...

12.5" x 19" Acrylic on muslin over mdf This was the last of a half dozen pieces made in 2017 using muslin that was stained prior to being stretched across the fiberboard elements....

10.25" x 14.5" Acrylic on muslin over mdf This piece nicely demonstrates my love of an internal logic that when examined piece by piece doesn’t seem to hold up but somehow makes p...

23.25” x 35” Overall Size when Spaced : Acrylic on muslin over mdf- 3 Piece Set This piece emerged out of time spent folding and cutting paper with my son, who was then four years ...

21" x 20.75” Acrylic on muslin over mdf This piece operates according to a correspondence between interior and exterior elements. On the left an exterior straight edge and interior...

Warm ideas for cool days. Voluminous, voluptuous. Sun baked color of rust and saffron. Warmest color gradients born of joyful color studies and investigations into cut away and ove...

Mid-century modern abstract 3-D painting by Denver modernist Angelo Di Benedetto (1913-1992), circa 1950, the shaped 3-dimensional canvas is painted with black on black with acrylic paint. Created to be hung as a mobile, the work is finished on both sides. Measures 22 3⁄4 inches in diameter x 9 inches in depth. About the Artist: Born New Jersey 1913 Died Central City, CO 1992 The son of Italian immigrants from the Salerno province in southern Italy, as a teenager Di Benedetto worked to study at the Cooper Union Art School in New York City (1930-34) from which he graduated with a certificate in freehand drawing. He won a scholarship to the Boston Museum Art School where he studied for three years, beginning in 1934. In 1937, he entered his first juried exhibition at the Montclair Museum in New Jersey, winning first prize and first honorable mention. In December 1938, the Royal Netherlands Steamship Line sent him on a two-month ethnological study trip to Haiti, his first exposure to a different environment outside the United States. In 1940, his Haitian paintings were exhibited at the Montross Gallery in New York – his first solo show. Before World War II, Di Benedetto traveled extensively around the United States doing regional paintings. During the war in 1941, Di Benedetto volunteered for a secret mission based in Eritrea, Africa before the Allied invasion. Following Africa, he served as an orientation officer and aerial photographic officer in the District of Columbia. In 1945 he was assigned to a mapping unit at Buckley Airfield in Denver where he served until his discharge in 1946. Like many other servicemen stationed at the time in Colorado, Di Benedetto chose to remain in Colorado, impressed by the state’s physical grandeur and healthful climate. He settled in the old mining town of Central City in 1947. In 1949 Di Benedetto and his wife, ceramist Lee Porzio, opened the Benpro Art School in his studio where he conducted summer art classes. In 1950, Di Benedetto teamed up with Frank Vavra...

Acrylic on 3-D stretched canvas, dimensions listed for piece as shown. Dimensions are variable depending on hanging formation. Wall sculpture, yellow, red, orange, gray and white.

Acrylic and resin on 3-D stretched canvas. Sculpture, blue, green, orange. Abstract, biomorphic.

Acrylic and resin on 3-D stretched canvas. Sculpture, blue, green, orange. Abstract, biomorphic.

Acrylic on 3-D stretched canvas, dimensions listed for piece as shown. Dimensions are variable depending on hanging formation. Wall sculpture, orange, green, purple, gray and white. ...