Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery is extremely pleased to announce that Matt White has been named as the Gallery’s new featured artist and he will now be promoted by the gallery for the next 14 days in the gallery’s Artist Showcase.
Matt is an award-winning artist based in Ohio, USA. He was selected as 1 of the top twelve finalists in the gallery’s 33rd Solo Art Exhibition Series. The placement in this competition qualified his artwork to be showcased in this feature.
His Artist Showcase feature will be promoted to hundreds of major news outlets. In addition, the gallery will also be featuring and promoting his artwork in the gallery’s various social media networks for further exposure.
Below are Matt’s Artist Biography, Artist Statement and 5 of his oil and ink on canvas artworks submitted to this competition.
Matt White was born and raised in Columbus, Ohio, and earned his Fine Art degree from the Columbus College of Art and Design, though his real education started with a pencil and a sketchbook long before that.
At its core, his work is about balance. Not the tidy, symmetrical kind, but the push and pull between opposing forces: structure and chaos, and control and instinct. White has been sketching for as long as he can remember, and a lot of that comes from growing up lost in science fiction and fantasy. The worlds of Frank Herbert, Arthur C. Clarke, and Tolkien shaped how he sees things long before he ever picked up a brush seriously.
He's also a lifelong chess and billiards player, and that shows up in how he works a canvas. There's a strategy to it, a sense of angles and consequences, but there's room for spontaneity too. Years of training in Kung Fu and Tai Chi taught him something similar: how to hold discipline and fluidity in the same hand.
A lot of that comes back to Yin and Yang for White, not as a symbol he paints, but as a way of working. Structure against looseness, control against release. That tension is really what he's chasing every time he starts a new piece.
These days he's in Dublin, Ohio, still in the studio most days, with his wife Beth keeping him honest and their Shiba Inu, Fuji, keeping him company.
My work explores the threshold between structure and sentience - where engineered systems meet the forces that escape them. I am drawn to forms that are half-invented and half-remembered: drifting architectures, symbolic notations, and biological shapes that refuse singular meaning. These hybrid entities inhabit spaces where boundaries dissolve, transforming the mechanical into the organic, and language into pulse or breath.
I use fragmentation deliberately, filling surfaces with hieroglyphic marks as if a forgotten script is trying to cohere. Rooted forms coil through these lattices, disrupting symmetry and suggesting that life emerges in the gaps - the places where precision breaks down and imagination takes over.
These works exist as contemplative landscapes of uncertainty. They invite viewers to navigate the piece as one navigates memory: moving between the decipherable and the unknowable, assembling meaning from fragments that do not quite align. Ultimately, my goal is to create spaces where ambiguity is not a problem to solve, but an ecosystem to inhabit.
To learn more about Matt and to see more of his artworks, please visit his website.
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