Matthew Reeves

"Billy Ruben #1" Contemporary Yves Kline Blue Sculptural Painting

2020

Sculptural relief image of the biblical story from Genisis 28:12 about Jacob's Dream of a ladder reaching up to the heaves from the earth. The work is done on wood and it painted and lacquered over. It is signed by the artist in the bottom right corner. Artist biography: The Mississippi-born Dixon is a self-taught artist. A teacher spotted Dixon’s talent, when he was the first black student to take an art course in his newly integrated high school. Carl decided to get vocational training as a brick mason, but he returned to art-making, when his childhood friend, Ben Oliver, persuaded him to try his hand at wood carving on a router machine. The two aspiring artisans began making decorative address signs but soon moved on to bas-relief portraits of Michael Jackson, Prinz, and other black pop cultural icons for neighborhood kids. (Carl made an image in this style of my father, Andy the Prayer Warrior.) Dixon was inspired to create carved wood paintings...

Abstract textured biomorphic shape painted with bright green pigment by contemporary Houston, TX artist Matthew Reeves. The work is designed to hang awa...

Abstract textured biomorphic shape painted with dark gray by contemporary Houston, TX artist Matthew Reeves. The work is designed to hang away from the wall and cast a bright pink sh...

Abstract wall sculpture painting featuring intersecting linear grooves painted with bright blue paint. The uniqueness of this blue does not derive from the ult...

Abstract wall sculpture featuring three dimensional geometric shapes painted with bright blue paint. The uniqueness of this blue does not derive from the ultra...

Black and green geometric abstract mixed media painting by Houston artist Matthew Reeves. Signed by the artist on the back. This vertical painting featu...

Bonnie Maygarden is a multimedia artist who received her MFA in Studio Arts from Tulane University. The destruction of Hurricane Katrina caused her to take leave of New Orleans to fu...

Materials: acrylic and painted paper on Birch panel Non-objective artist Aimée Farnet Siegel works with color and line through the medium of hand-painted and manipulated paper. Her...

Materials: acrylic painted paper on Birch panel Non-objective artist Aimée Farnet Siegel works with color and line through the medium of hand-painted and manipulated paper. Her wor...

Materials: acrylic painted paper on Birch panel Non-objective artist Aimée Farnet Siegel works with color and line through the medium of hand-painted and manipulated paper. Her wor...

Materials: acrylic and painted paper on Birch panel Non-objective artist Aimée Farnet Siegel works with color and line through the medium of hand-painted and manipulated paper. Her...

Materials: acrylic painted paper on Birch panel Non-objective artist Aimée Farnet Siegel works with color and line through the medium of hand-painted and manipulated paper. Her wor...