Journal of Writing & Environment

Five oil paintings

Visual Art by Matthew Metzger

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Matt Metzger is a painter, sculptor and furniture maker based in Cincinnati, Ohio. Originally an attorney, Metzger has left the law to focus on art. In 2012, Matt was named one of the 21 Under 31 artists to collect by Southwest Art Magazine. His work has been featured in the Paris Review, PoetsArtists Magazine, and in numerous solo and group shows. You can find his website here.

For me, the landscape and its sublimity is the ideal genre to capture human emotion. Here, amidst the overwhelming landscape, in our smallness we are reduced to feeling most human. And when we are most human our feelings are, paradoxically, often the most incomprehensible. I paint the landscape from memory and emotion and seek to invoke those incomprehensible qualities in my paintings. Always being unable to express what is incomprehensible, my art is left vulnerable to interpretation. Thus, not by design but by necessity, this vulnerability allows the viewer to take what he or she wants (and in some cases needs) to take from each painting. Through this process and interaction with the viewer I hope to create a meaningful dialogue.

Journal of Writing & Environment

Matthew Metzger, "Clouds; Atmosphere; Time"

Matthew Metzger, "Lost Clouds"

Matthew Metzger, "The Outing"

Matthew Metzger, "Sublime in the Old Sense"

Matthew Metzger, "Light Without Distinction"