Matt Higgins Abstract Paintings

Stepping Stones is an abstract acrylic painting on wood panel, featuring expressive yet restrained forest-green brushstrokes against a warm, natural ground. Organic curves and contra...

"Silent Embrace" features flowing black and ivory forms that curve around one another, creating a sense of movement and connection. The contrast between the dark shapes and open spac...

This abstract painting explores movement, tension, and the interplay of solid and empty space. Bold blue forms overlap and flow across the canvas, creating a sense of depth and conti...

This painting examines the interplay between spontaneity and stillness through expressive black-and-white gestures. Layered brushstrokes reveal abstract floral forms, creating a spac...

This painting is a dynamic exploration of gesture, movement, and materiality. Built through layers of saturated color, sweeping marks, and vigorous interventions, the work balances d...

This abstract piece explores balance through bold black brushstrokes set against a soft neutral background. The composition combines sweeping gestures and organic forms, creating a s...

Summer Horizon is a contemporary abstract landscape painting that uses acrylic paint to stain the canvas and form large areas of color and shape. The open area of blue brings to min...

Collage has always been a part of the artist's work. The idea of reusing, recontextualizing, and even resurrecting parts of the painting. From an economic standpoint the materials ar...

This painting combines geometric and organic shapes to create a sense of movement and rhythm. A variety of tools, including soft brushes, chip brushes, a drywall scraper, and a rubbe...

This abstract painting features bold, expressive black brushstrokes on a soft neutral background, creating a composition with both movement and balance. The substantial depth of the ...

This painting uses an interplay of dark green, black, and negative space, forming abstract, gestural shapes that evoke a sense of rhythm and movement. The composition balances dense,...

This piece is an abstract acrylic painting created on a wood panel. It features a bold, energetic composition built from large, block-like shapes and expressive strokes of saturated ...

This vibrant abstract painting features bold red and orange tones layered with expressive, gestural brushwork. Accents of soft white, blue, and green punctuate the composition, creat...

This abstract painting uses bold shapes and strong color contrasts to create a sense of movement across the canvas. Areas of blue form the background, while orange, yellow, green, an...

This painting was created using acrylic paint on raw canvas. The washy moments of paint create variations of black and grey tones and texture. The bold geometric shapes loosely refer...

This painting was created over several months with intermittent pauses throughout the process. The primary composition was established early on, but the surface evolved as layers of ...

The artwork "Trap" evolved through multiple sessions, employing a diverse application of layered oil paint techniques such as brushwork, direct tube application, and blending with wa...

This artwork evolved gradually through a lengthy process, employing oil on canvas along with affixed sections of canvas. The painting incorporates fragments from earlier smaller work...

Excerpt from the Palm series 2023 - Present The artworks presented here depict palm-like plants in mostly nocturnal and enigmatic settings, often against mountainous backdrops and o...

This painting is a rhythmic and energetic abstract composition that combines bold color, dynamic form, and the physical layering of materials. The artist employs sweeping shapes and ...

Tectonic Heat is built through a slow process of layering and revision over the course of several months. The surface developed through repeated applications of paint, removal, and r...

This work presents a striking interplay of deep cobalt blue and vibrant orange, layered with lighter blue and off white passages that suggest fluid movement across the surface. The b...

This painting was created using layered washes of black acrylic as a backdrop, with bold applications of oil paint and oil sticks worked energetically across the surface. It depicts ...

This large-scale oil painting on a wood panel bursts with kinetic energy and bold color, dominated by a vivid red background that envelops and contrasts with dynamic strokes of blue,...

Elusive Orange uses bold brushwork and strong dynamic figure-ground relationships to create a balanced and intriguing abstract composition. The evidence of the process can be seen in...

"Afterparty" is an oil-on-canvas painting that employs a vocabulary of geometric shapes, blending together to form new and unforeseen moments. Originally executed with acrylic on can...

This painting came about through process and experimentation with layering and combining geometric shapes. Throughout the process of creation I was listening to electronic / dance mu...

This painting by contemporary artist and professor, Matt Higgins, is a bold, abstract composition that unfolds across the panel in vivid, high-contrast color. Fluid, ribbon-like form...

Cosmic Blossoms is a vibrant and expressive oil painting that continues the artist’s ongoing exploration of floral, plant life and landscape motifs set against surreal, dreamlike lan...