Anthony Mastromatteo Abstract Paintings
American, b. 1970
The arts have been an integral part of Anthony Mastromatteo’s life for over 25 years. A Bachelor of Arts degree in Art History from Princeton University in 1992 led to a five year position at Christie’s auction house in New York City in the American Paintings, 19th Century Paintings and Maritime Paintings and Objects departments. As his exposure to the art world expanded he began studying the practice of art after work at the Art Student’s League in New York City. In 1997 he made the transition to full-time art study at the Water Street Atelier, a school of art practice based on the methodology of the French Academy and the French atelier system of the 18th and 19th centuries, under the tutelage of Jacob Collins. In 2002 he finished his studies and made the transition to working as a professional artist. He has worked solely as an artist since that time. He currently has representation with galleries in New York City, Los Angeles and Cleveland.
Anthony currently resides with his wife and daughter, Stella and Alba, in Akron, Ohio.(Biography provided by Grenning Gallery)
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Artist: Anthony Mastromatteo
"The Painting, As Seen by the Wall" an oil painting of a canvas, framed backward
By Anthony Mastromatteo
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
One of the most confounding paintings in this exhibition is “The Painting, As Seen by the Wall”. Mastromatteo depicts a bare canvas, framed in reverse, turned-around. He presents the...
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2010s Post-Modern Anthony Mastromatteo Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Wonder, or The Plane of the Invisible - blue trompe l'oeil oil painting
By Anthony Mastromatteo
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
In the trompe l'oeil panel painting, "Wonder, or the Plane of the Invisible," a comic cut-out of Wonder Woman sits between two spatial planes—the top, very flat plane is cut out in the shape of a plane as a play Wonder Woman's famous "Invisible Plane." The silly way the comic book character would sit in an imaginary seat flying through the air would force the artist to wonder, “how do you represent an invisible plane”. Here, we see a bright blue canvas, sprinkled with glittery paillettes; an outline of an airplane beneath an outline of the word “SKY”, an infantile depiction of the sun made of masking tape, and finally, the hero, Wonder Woman, her comic clipping taped onto the invisible plane. A very believable, naturalist blue sky with puffy white clouds is visible through the letters and the invisible airplane. It feels like we can reach into the invisible plane to find the natural world…yet atop the plane is an old cartoon of the first female superhero. She overlaps the realistic atmosphere, and even casts a shadow onto it. The planet’s orbit is dedicated to the sun, and all living things need the light to survive…yet this most important element is made up of a crude array of tape strips, asymmetrical, and even torn in-half. This sun refers back to Pablo Picasso’s sun...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Anthony Mastromatteo Abstract Paintings
Materials
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"Being and Nothingness" trompe l'oeil & modernist oil painting, red butterflies
By Anthony Mastromatteo
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Being and Nothingness" is a 2023 trompe l'oeil modernist oil painting.
Mastromatteo pays homage to Malevich’s black square, and even positions it at the top left quarter of the canvas. The modernist symbol is austere, and formidable, yet it lays flat on the two-dimensional plane. Outside the square, amidst a wall of white, are little butterflies. Their angled wings...
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21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Anthony Mastromatteo Abstract Paintings
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Felix Culpa, or Must be a Woe - trompe l'oeil oil painting
By Anthony Mastromatteo
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Continuing his affinity for Malevich’s geometric paragon is Felix Culpa or ‘Must be a Woe,” this time, in red. Three red squares hover above Christ suffering on the cross—one of the most recognizable images in art history—yet here, no wooden cross is in sight. Christ simply floats against a white wall. The three “Red Squares” map the edges of the invisible crucifix, and an old violin...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Anthony Mastromatteo Abstract Paintings
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A Portrait of the Artist
By Anthony Mastromatteo
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Framed Dimensions: 16 x 16.75 inches
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Materials
Oil, Panel
"Lovely Mary Jane" Post-Modern painting inspired by The Bluest Eye, Toni Morison
By Anthony Mastromatteo
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Lovely Mary Jane" is a Post-Modern painting inspired by The Bluest Eye by Toni Morison.
Lovely Mary Jane is a candy wrapper, taped to a blue wall. It’s trash, glorified. But this is not a political statement about commercialism or recycling. This painting was inspired by one of the top 10 banned books across the country, Toni Morrison’s “The Bluest Eye” which is about a young black girl who wishes she had blue eyes, an envy shaped from her love of her favorite candy, Mary Jane. It’s a heartbreaking notion caused by an ideal of beauty perpetuated by a marketing campaign for a sweet treat. Classical painting also hails a certain ideal of beauty… and one wouldn’t usually find something as insignificant as a candy wrapper as the focal point of their pièce de résistance. However, Mastromatteo is asking us to see that here is power in idealization, especially in something so seemingly throwaway. He’s prodding us to be more aware…to make people aware of the significance of the seemingly insignificant. The one power an artist possesses is that of forcing the viewer to look at something of his choosing…and in this case he’s asking us to look at something that may be garbage. Consider Maurizio Cattelan, whom in 2019 taped a banana to the wall with duct tape, and it later sold for $120,000…art forces the viewer to consider something that everyone is telling you to look at. Mastromatteo’s candy wrapper is taped up to the wall in a similar fashion as Cattelan’s banana…if we look long enough at the tape, we’ll notice it’s resemblance to the “not-equal” sign...
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2010s Post-Modern Anthony Mastromatteo Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Is NOT" 2023, post-modern trompe l'oeil oil painting
By Anthony Mastromatteo
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Is NOT is a present day vanitas still life. A meditation on the ephemerality of life and the things we hold dear. The fragility of the statement "time is not money" is represented in...
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2010s Post-Modern Anthony Mastromatteo Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"White Picket Fence (Aspirational Memoir)" inspired by Morison's The Bluest Eye
By Anthony Mastromatteo
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"White Picket Fence (Aspirational Memoir)" is inspired by Toni Morison's The Bluest Eye.
The focal point is a bright green square, encased with a picket- fence made of white tape. I...
Category
2010s Post-Modern Anthony Mastromatteo Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"The Three Body Problem" pink comic book trompe l'oeil of physics phenomenon
By Anthony Mastromatteo
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"The Three Body Problem" is a pink comic book trompe l'oeil of a famous physics phenomenon.
Mastromatteo creates a meditation on the "Three Body Pr...
Category
2010s Post-Modern Anthony Mastromatteo Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
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