MATT DRISSELL
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    • Of system of elements
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    • Morituri Te Salutant
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recent work

These works encapsulate my recent experiences, paintings that are rooted in place.

Two years ago, my family and I moved from the Midwest. Our home was in Sioux Center, Iowa, in one of the leading industrial agricultural counties in the United States. There, 97% of the landscape is farmland, dominated by corn, soybeans, and animals – 8 million chickens, 1 million hogs, and 400,000 cows.

A move to the Southwest has then brought a dramatic shift to that sense of place.

Now at home in Silver City, New Mexico, the Gila National Forest and Wilderness blankets us with over 3 million acres of expansive ranges, hills, and mountains. As my family and I wander around these environs, we are delighted by new and complex encounters – a Cane Cholla or Rufous Hummingbird – encounters in this case, along the Gila National Forest - Little Walnut’s Dragon Trail.

​These paintings then suggest a growing awareness of the Southwest’s striking intricacies.
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  • About
    • News
    • Curriculum Vitae
    • Contact Matt
  • Paintings
    • Recent Work
    • Of system of elements
    • Externalities
    • Shelf Life
    • Other Works
  • Works on Paper
    • Domestic Disturbance
    • The Flock
    • Morituri Te Salutant
    • Weeds
    • MFA Thesis Series