Matthew Litteken graduated from Miami University (of Ohio) in 1995 with a Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts. His concentrations during school were painting and ceramics, with an additional emphasis in art education.
Matthew’s paintings have been included in various shows at the Philadelphia Art Alliance, Purdue University Galleries, Northern Kentucky University, The Artist’s Museum in Washington, D.C., and The Art Association of Harrisburg, PA. In 2002, he was one of the artists featured in the exhibition “The Art of the State” at the Susquehanna Art Museum in Harrisburg, PA. His paintings are in private collections across the United States.
Matthew and his family currently reside in the greater Cincinnati area, where, in 2004, he completed his Master’s Degree in Fine Arts at the school of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning at the University of Cincinnati. He is currently teaching at Miami University (of Ohio) in the fine arts department.
Who I'd like to meet: Creative artists of all kinds; painters, drawers, conceptual artists, glass blowers, potters, sculptors, photographers, thinkers..........................Everybody.
Video documentation of a performance piece by my friend Nate Kassel who rode around on his bike slapping high-fives to people who were trying to hail taxi cabs in NYC. Enjoy!
What sweet creative genius this, with which you gift us here and there tableaux of your stellar intellect and marvellous spirit, happy birthday sweet and noble man, thanks for the inspiration...
Hand to Hand - the coast to coast collaborative collage of Rebecca Trawick and David Wallace
Over the course of two years, Rebecca and I traded collages back and forth through the mail, adding to each work as it changed hands. Throughout this process, we never met in person - I live in Pittsburgh, and Rebecca lives in Southern CA. We found that working together was a way to communicate on a purely creative level. We weren’t interested in becoming “pen pals,” but rather in seeing how our two styles could combine to create work that was not completely me, not totally her, but something new and surprising to us both. The work debuted at Moxie Dada in Pittsburgh in January 2007 and has since been shown at Phd Gallery in St. Louis and Tangent Lab in Wichita, working its way across the U.S. in much the same way the pieces themselves traveled between the two of us.
"This beautiful collection of collages holds no specific thematic intentions; there are no hidden messages to interpret. Each piece offers its own vocabulary, images for which viewers can create their own meanings. Or one can simply appreciate the image for its aesthetic value as a beautiful work of art." - Janera Soloman, Pittsburgh City Paper
'Hand to Hand' February 11 – March 13, 2009 Presented by Hub-Bub at The Showroom 149 S.Daniel Morgan Ave. Suite 2 Spartanburg, SC 29306 864-582-0056
Opening reception Wednesday, February 11, 2009 7:00 p.m. until 9:00 p.m.
