Brad Matthews' Studio

Brad Matthews’ Studio

Art and Humanity

Hello and Welcome

I am Brad Matthews. I have been sculpting figuratively since 2004 and rendering my insights to the human experience ever since.  My work includes portraits as well as wholly imagined characters, both in-the-round and in bas relief.  While all my pieces initially take form in clay, they may be completed in kiln-cast glass, foundry-cast bronze, cold-cast resin, or kiln-fired ceramic.

My sculptural beings emerge from the clay with their expressions of underlying experiences and personal narratives. I discover and facilitate this emergence, as much as I purposefully shape the clay to express some experience I have in mind.

My work invites a continuing dialogue – with the materials, my audience and myself. My content, forms, and materials combine to attract and inspire exploration of the humanity my works express. I am told that interacting with my sculptures evokes feelings and thoughts – elicits memories and reflections – invites imagination of conversations and narratives – and refreshes understandings of the meaning of the human experience.

Portfolio Examples

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Media

Ceramics

The foundation of sculpture begins with ceramics. It is the essential building block of my art.

Glass

Unparalleled depth and dimension is what glass instills in my work. With portraits it allows you to look into the soul of my subjects.

Bronze

Provocative and sensual, bronze transforms any piece, not matter how small, into something monumental.

Resin

There is a subtle translucency to resin that evokes an experience not found in other materials.

Juried Shows

  • Newburyport Art Association, Newburyport, MA, USA
    • 2024 I_M_Migrant ‘Most Moving Award’ National Juried Show
    • 2021 I_M_Migrant ‘Best in Show Award’ Winter Juried Show
    • 2018 Winter Juried Show
  • New England Sculptors Association
    • Old Schwab Mill, Arlington, MA (2023) (2022)
    • Annual Equinox Show (online) (2022) (2021)
  • Marblehead Art Association, Marblehead, MA (2023)
  • Whiteville Mill, Whiteville, MA (2022)
  • Open Sky, Whitinsville, MA  (2022)
  • Imago Foundation for the Arts, Warren , RI (2019)
  • K12 Gallery, Kragerø, Norway (2016 Winter Show)
  • Kunstcentralen, Kragerø, Norway (2015 Summer Show)
  • Bølgeblikk, Kragerø, Norway (2014)
  • Glass Symposium, Kragerø, Norway (Norwegian national show, 2012)
  • Edmunds Art Festival, Edmunds, Washington, USA (2009)
  • North Kitsap Arts & Crafts Festival, Port Gamble, Washington, USA
    • 2008
    • 2007 Sassafras ‘3rd Prize’ (sculpture)

Galleries

  • Gruber-Maynard Pop-Up Gallery (2017, 2018)
  • K-12 Gallery, Kragerø, Norway (2016 Winter Show)
  • ABC Art Gallery, Bainbridge Island, Washington, USA (2010)
  • Directors Gallery, Bainbridge Island, Washington, USA (2009)