Chason Matthams' focus is on capturing the ephemeral experience of consciousness and pointing to its fragmentary nature. While at first glance his paintings seem to be contemplative experiments in mimesis, prolonged looking reveals threatening undertones. Matthams’ employs specific combinations of colors, angles of perspective, and exhaustive detail to anthropomorphize each of his subjects, rendering them just barely sinister. Flitting between mechanical and organic objects, Matthams’ exacting brushwork is the connective thread leading our eye through every sumptuous detail.

Matthams graduated with a BFA in Fine Art from New York University in 2004 and an MFA from New York University in 2012. Previous solo and two person exhibitions include Agape in the spectrum, Magenta Plains, New York, NY (2024); Independent New York with Stan VanDerBeek, Magenta Plains, New York, NY (2023), Glimpse, Magenta Plains, New York, NY (2022); A Hell for Rainbows, Thierry Goldberg Gallery, New York, NY (2019); Tyler Wood Gallery, San Francisco, CA (2019, 2013); and Advances, none miraculous, Thierry Goldberg Gallery, New York, NY (2015).

Previous group exhibitions include Rainbow country, VSOP Projects, Greenport, NY (2023); Blossom, Tong Art Advisory, Shenzhen, CN (2021); Nature morte, The Hole, New York, NY (2021); Stockholm sessions, Carl Koystal, Stockholm, Sweden (2021); L’immagen, Ashes/Ashes, New York, NY (2017); Cynthia Daignault’s The certainty of others, Flag Art Foundation, New York, NY (2017); Break out, Frédéric de Goldschmidt Collection, Brussels, Belgium (2015); and Beyond the pale, Interstate, Brooklyn, NY (2014). Matthams work is included in public collections such as the Beth Rudin Dewoody Collection, The Bunker, West Palm Beach, FL; Fidelity Investments Corporate Art Collection, New York, NY; Morgan Stanley Collection, New York, NY; and Xiao Museum of Contemporary Art, Rizhao, CN.