Images created with aluminum aircraft paint, and related works.

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Homo Redux
(Self Portrait)
1' X 10"

ARTIST’S STATEMENT

Making a painting requires and impetus to know – not necessarily to know truth, but to visually realize ideas that cannot be mentally pictured. Art makes concrete what cannot be achieved by other means.

Through my drawing and painting I try to portray the different layers of existence that surround me, from the mundane to the cosmic. I believe these levels exist in everything: trees, animals, sunsets, people, etc. Everything around me is full of information and wisdom. Creating and identifying helps me remember and connect with people, places, and things. Making these paintings seems like such a random and chaotic process. The rational part of me often wonders at the pointlessness of it. But in the end, I’m always surprised by how much sense they make after all, and how complete and human I feel because of them.

Mat O’Donnell

Birthdays
2' X 2'

Darwinism
8" X 11"

Encouragement
1' X 3'

The Oldest Profession
10" X 12"

Substance of Perception
2' X 1'

Fabrications
2' X 2'

Tell Tale
2' X 6'

Journeys
2' X 4'

State-O-Maine
2 1/2' X 2 1/2'

Log Driving - West Forks, Maine
2' X 2'

Jamboree
2 1/2' X 3 1/2'
[sold]

Pageants
2' X 2'

Monogamy
1 1/2' X 2'

Perfect Husbands
2' X 6'

L.L.Beings
www.stuff.com

1 1/2' X 2'

The Magician
1' X 1 1/2'

Shake & Bake
1' X 9"

American Banking Standards
1' X 3'

Negotiating Health Insurance
1' X 3 1/2'

Right

Dancers #1
8" X 14"

Dancers #2
1' X 9"

Gender Benders
10" X 10"

Untitled
9" X 9"

Madonna & Child
2' X 2'

Interstate 95
11" X 11"

Mothers & Sons
1' X 8"

Sacred Calf
2' X 4'

Fact & Fiction
2' X 1 3/4'

Dear Boyscout
2' X 2'

Richard's Calf
2' X 2'

Coeur de Boeuf
1' X 2 1/2'

Making History
2 1/2' X 3'

Free Will #1
2' X 2'

Free Will #2
12" X 14"