Matthew Pendleton: Drawings

Matthew Pendleton: Drawings

Compellingly precise, ripe with unfolding metaphysical lineage, the visual promise of Matthew Pendleton's work is profound.

Born in 1980 in Woodward Oklahoma, Pendleton grew up around the multidisciplinary practices of his older brothers; and with no formal education in the arts, Pendleton makes his way and defines his process with focus, commitment, and an abundant investment of time.

Matthew Pendleton's work is a labor of quietness and precision. It can best be described as the physical footprint of a "living meditation."

Pendleton was never interested in the rendering of objects using realism. For him, abstraction is the mystery that comes out of his work; he never knows what a piece will be until it is complete.

Spending months, and even years, of focused attention on each piece, each line gives vitality to the work. He begins each piece with a small, abstract shape against a white paper field.

Slowly, laboriously, he begins to outline the shape with spider-web thin lines. Nevertouching and carefully drawn, these lines begin to take on a life of their own as the drawing's topography is revealed.

The lines create a visual echo of the central shape, rippling out in all directions to the edge of the paper, reacting and creating tension within and around each other.

Triptych 2019

Graphite and colored pencil on paper 20 x 20 inches each 22-5/8 x 22-5/8 inches each framed

Untitled (Three Sails) 2019

Graphite and colored pencil on paper 30 x 44 inches each 32-3/4 x 46-3/4 inches framed

Untitled 2019

Graphite and colored pencil on paper 50 x 38 inches each 52 x 41 inches framed

Untitled (Trinity) 2017

Graphite and colored pencil on paper 22 x 30 inches each 25-3/8 x 32-1/8 inches framed Private collection, Galisteo, NM

Untitled (Cut Agate on Red) 2017

Graphite and colored pencil on paper 50 x 38 inches each 52-3/8 x 40-1/2 inches framed

Untitled 2018

Ink and colored pencil on paper 30 x 44 inches each 32-3/4 x 46-3/4 inches framed Private collection, Austin, TX

Untitled (Cube Intersection) 2017

Graphite and colored pencil on paper 22 x 30 inches each 25-3/8 x 32-1/8 inches framed

Untitled (Blue/Gray) 2016

Graphite and colored pencil on paper 22 x 30 inches each 25-3/8 x 32-1/8 inches framed

Untitled 2016

Graphite and colored pencil on paper 22 x 30 inches each 25-3/8 x 32-1/8 inches framed