 photo courtesy: Jason Frinchaboy, 1999 |
It is the greatest Art that can reach the heart of a wide variety of people at once. In each new painting, this is the highet aim for Matt Abraxas. To inspire intrigue in the casual onlooker and at the same time elevate the deepest perceiver. It's a high aim, but as Helen Keller said, "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar"
Matt studied for a short time with Ted Seth Jacobs at L'Ecole Albert DeFois, in the Anjou region of France, and then with Jeffrey R. Watts at the Watts Atelier in California. These two approaches to representational art continue to influence Matt's work. He is constantly refining his skills, sifting through lessons from masters of the past and the present, and cultivating his own unique statement on the expanse of representational painting.
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Matt married Rebecca Beacher in 2003, and Matt Brown took the surname of Abraxas with his wife; the name Abraxas essentially means to accept the good and bad in each of us (for better or for worse, in sickness and in health, etc....) The two are now parents to Zorba Coltrane Abraxas and Rainer Brown Abraxas. They live in Lafayette, CO. for now. |
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I am fortunate to have experienced a life rich with variety and opportunity. There grows in me a deep reverence for the passion that my life has cultivated. Now, as a father of two energetic, brilliant boys, and a husband to a talented, spirited woman, I know more about living my own turbulence in the face of others very near to me and about a peacefulness that is born only out of chaos: it is something that grows out of the contrasting experience; it's the solidity and incomparable tenderness that a Hallmark card tries to express. The journey of the family man is, as I'm learning, more adventurous, more vulnerable and more educational than anything I've experienced before. |
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Currently Represented by SmithKlein Gallery November 2009- SmithKlein Gallery January 2009- SmithKlein Gallery September, 2008- Namaste Gallery August, 2008- Namaste Gallery July, 2008- Namaste Gallery August, 2007- Myriad Gallery July, 2007 - Gallery Opening Night June, 2007: Rembrandt Yard May, 2007: BMOCA May, 2007: Tapestry Community May, 2007: Rembrandt Yard April, 2007: Rocky Mountain PBS 2006: Frasier Meadows Gallery Hall 2006: Trident Cafe 2006: Rocky Mountain PBS 2006: Human Organics Fundraiser 2006: BMOCA 2005: Mary Williams Fine Art Road Show 2005: Human Organics Fundraiser 2005: Rocky Mountain PBS 2000: En Vie Wine Bar 1999: Backaroo Salon 1998: Redsand Cafe Gallery 1996: Les Cercuex Sous Passavant 1995: Hill Street Cafe Gallery 1994: Palomar College |
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