Matthew Felix Sun

— Award-Winning San Francisco Bay Area Fine Artist

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Artist - oil, gouache, and ink paintings
San Francisco Bay Area
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— Vortex, oil an canvas, 28”x22”, 2024 Just

— Vortex, oil an canvas, 28”x22”, 2024

Just finished, another abstract piece exploring spatial and tonal relationships — conflict and harmony.

#abstract #art #abstractart #painting #OilPainting #movements #curves #space #arc #harmony #conflict #contrast #cosmic #chaos #order #celestial

November exhibition at City Art Gallery @sfcityart

November exhibition at City Art Gallery @sfcityartgallery , San Francisco: October 30 - December 1, 2024

Location: City Art Gallery 828 Velencia Street, San Francisco

Reception: November 1, Friday, 7-9 pm

Come to see my recent gouache on paper, many completed this year!

#art #exhibition #SanFrancisco #ValenciaCorridor #coop #gallery #gouache #WorkOnPaper #abstract #StillLIfe #landscape #ContemporaryArt

- Apparition, gouache on paper, 14'"x11", 2024 Th

- Apparition, gouache on paper, 14'"x11", 2024

This is a piece inspired by Halloween. Halloween always invokes some strange feelings - nothing scary, but rather somewhat mysterious, secretive, and seductive, tinged with the regret of separation and the passing of time.

To capture the confluence of these diverse sentiments, I created this painting titled "Apparition," a saturated space where ghostly translucent shapes with meaningful gestures flicker and scurry around, casting a fantastical and supernatural spell, and in such, I hope that I have captured the essence of this mystical all-saints day.

#abstract #painting #gouache #GouacheOnPaper #WorkOnPaper #apparition #ghost #halloween #holiday #fantastical #supernatural #DiaDeLosMuertos #DayOfTheDead

- Jubilant, gouache on paper, 11"x14", 2024 When

- Jubilant, gouache on paper, 11"x14", 2024

When I painted this "Jubilant", I chose an array of colors, especially blues, greens, and reds, which is especially broad as they included maroon, red, and purple. These colors of relatively brighter or darker hue, higher or lower intensity, carried their own characteristics. I was able to arrange them in a juxtaposing array, as if enacting a scene on a stage.

These colors include my go-to colors: shades of blue, and gray, for example. But they also include colors I found challenging and unwieldy (greens), and unexciting (marron or brown). Yet, all colors contribute to the overall effect and the red and light green become more pronounced and exciting because of the comparison against the duller brown. Lighter brown nested inside a darker ones generated another interesting detail.

Naturally, the shapes and movements of these color patches affected their characters and relationships; therefore, colors are important, but they are not the only things that matter.

#abstract #jubilant #joy #joyous #painting #WorkOnPaper #gouache #GouachePainting #eastbayartist #artoftheday #dance #cacophony

- Restive, gouache on paper, 14"x11", 2024 This i

- Restive, gouache on paper, 14"x11", 2024

This is a class assignment on the theme of alter ego. This painting documents my restive and sometimes chaotic nature, especially my refusing to be confined to rules and norms. The contrasting bright colors of yellow and purple demand to be noticed, and the splashes of gray and white added movements and spontaneity to the ever-shifting focal points.

#art #abstract #splash #movement #contrast #instability #chaotic #chaos #restive #gouache #WorkOnPaper

- Bulwark, graphite and gouache on paper collage,

- Bulwark, graphite and gouache on paper collage, 14"x11", 2024

"Bulwark" focuses on contrasts between foreground and background, and the repeating and echoing patterns on the foreground and background. The patterns in the foreground of charcoal on paper, are the study of the markings on the tree barks, and of their subtle repetition and divagations. These subtle changes contrasted strongly with the placement of these paper stripes on the abstract background, whose pattern also echoes those in the foreground and reminiscences of the tree branches surrounding the strongly outlined "trunks".

The painting as a whole, though inspired by realistic objects, the finished image can be seen as a study of contrasts and variations.

This piece is a collage of stripes of graphite imprint on paper on a background painted in gouache.

#abstract #collage #graphite #gouache #pattern #form #collision #contrast #force #minimalism #brutalist #bulwark #WorkOnPaper #BayAreaArtist #artoftheday

— Luminous, oil on canvas, 22”x28”, 2024 A

— Luminous, oil on canvas, 22”x28”, 2024

A landscape painting of a fantastical woods

#painting #landscape #art #OilPainting #BlackAndWhite #oil #art #fantasy #illusion #luminous #trees #woods #evocative

— Allure, India ink on Yupo paper, 11”x14”,

— Allure, India ink on Yupo paper, 11”x14”, 2024

An evocative painting full of aching yearning …

#painting #InkPainting #ink #landscape #evocation #wishful #allure #yearning #window #confined #meadow #tree #desire

— Impede, gouache on paper, 14”x11”, 2024 A

— Impede, gouache on paper, 14”x11”, 2024

An abstract piece exploring lines, movements, and tonal relations.

#painting #WorkOnPaper #gouache #GouachePainting #abstract #lines #movements #art

— Gushing, oil on canvas, 16”x20”, 2024 A s

— Gushing, oil on canvas, 16”x20”, 2024

A semi-abstract painting inspired by refreshingly gushing rapids.

#painting #landscape #abstract #OilPainting #water #waterfalls #rapids #nature #impasto #art

— Cacophony, oil on canvas, 22”x28”, 2024 A

— Cacophony, oil on canvas, 22”x28”, 2024

An abstract painting about mixture of colors, forms, and emotions.

#painting #OilPainting #abstract #chaos #harmony #contrast #emotion #uncertainty #cacophony

— Echo, oil on canvas, 28”x22”, 2024 Anothe

— Echo, oil on canvas, 28”x22”, 2024

Another abstract painting about forms, patterns, movement, and contrasts.

#painting #art #form #pattern #abstract #OilPainting #movement #contrast

— Rookery, oil an canvas, 28”x22”, 2024 A n

— Rookery, oil an canvas, 28”x22”, 2024

A new abstract painting. I “finished” it yesterday, and finished it four more times today. It is finally done! An abstract painting exploring interlocking spatial and contrasting tonal relationships.

#painting #abstract #OilPainting #art #ContemporaryArt #colorful #pattern #movement #contrast #BayAreaArt #oil #metaphor #slum #rookery

So excited that this painting, Bountiful, found a

So excited that this painting, Bountiful, found a new home via City Art Gallery (@sfcityartgallery ) in San Francisco.

- Bountiful, gouache on paper, 11"x14", 2023

I am so humbled and grateful. Thank you!

#painting #gouache #GouachePainting #WorkOnPaper #landscape #colorful #bountiful #sanfrancisco

— Euphoria, gouache on paper, 14”x11”, 2024

— Euphoria, gouache on paper, 14”x11”, 2024

Avery recent painting, reflecting joyous and carefree summertime.

#painting #GouachePainting #abstract #summer #joy #carefree #euphoria #bright #joyous

Preview of my July exhibition at City Art Gallery,

Preview of my July exhibition at City Art Gallery, San Francisco (July 3-28).
https://www.cityartgallery.org/ @sfcityazrtgallery
Opening reception July 5, Friday, 7-9 pm

I will show 9 gouache paintings, and a few additional gouache paintings and graphite drawings, together with a dozen other affiliate artists.

#art #exhibition #SanFrancisco #CityArtGallery #bayarea #gouache #graphite #painting #drawing #colorful #landscape #abstract

- Rippling, oil on canvas, 20"x16", 2024 A new ab

- Rippling, oil on canvas, 20"x16", 2024

A new abstract oil painting, exploring subtle tonal and spatial variations and relationship

#art #oil #OilPainting #abstract #variation #gradation #tonal #spatial #dark #shadow #movements #eastbayartist #berkeley #SanFrancisco #ContemporaryArt

My evocative 2020 oil painting "Waifs" was recentl

My evocative 2020 oil painting "Waifs" was recently published by Clepsydra Issue: 4 Cove, in June 2024. Many thanks!

#art #publication #painting #OilPainting #mystery #mysterious #evocative #woods #girl #girls #figurative #landscape #myth #fairytale #allegory #allegorical #berkeley #SanFrrancisco #eastbayartist

— Protraction, oil on canvas, 30”x24”, 2024

— Protraction, oil on canvas, 30”x24”, 2024

An abstract painting, inspired by a vision of barred portal.

#painting #abstract #OilPainting #oil #protraction #portal #lines #movement #lines #eastbayartist #artofinstagram #artoftheday

Four shredded graphite on paper collages. I love t

Four shredded graphite on paper collages. I love the negative spaces. Made @makersworkspace

#art #collage #graphite #WorkOnPaper #FineArt #berkeley #eastbayart #eastbayartist #abstract #negative #NegativeSpace

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