Gender	Male
Industry	Arts
Location	Chicago, IL, United States
Introduction	Born 1976 in Mississippi. Lives and works in Chicago, Illinois. Matthews has had a lifelong interest in the relationship between symbols, signs and images and that part of ourselves we most commonly refer to as "unconscious". "My interest in painting stems from my investigation into the relationship between images and their relevant use within the psyche. Many of the mythological, religious, alchemical, and historical icons, symbolic figures and shapes stimulate, if not summon, internal functions."
Interests	Iconography, Alchemy, Giordano Bruno, art of memory, Individuation,
Favorite music	Lajkó Félix , Dirty Three , 4ad , Sigur Rós , Jacqueline du Pré , Robert Johnson ,
Favorite books	Isidore of Seville's Etymologies, The Didascalicon of Hugh of Saint Victor, Early Netherlandish Painting by Erwin Panofsky, The Forge and the Crucible, Psychology and Alchemy by CG Jung,