Saturday, March 8, 6–8pm
Wednesday, April 30, 12:30 pm
Sunday, May 4, 4pm
Matt Brackett’s work is a striking combination of the real and surreal. Drawing from landscape traditions throughout art history, his paintings are masterful compositions of form and light, threading personal and family narratives to create a realistic, yet alternate reality. His series Dark Animal explores recent years of uncertainty, a complicated story of darkness, doubt, beauty, and solace. Memory, loss, and rebirth are common themes in Brackett’s work, and while subjects are dark and unsettling, the works on view at Danforth Art are a cathartic treatment of topics ranging from the joy of birth to the tragedy of disease.
Matt Brackett trained as a painter, and received a BA from Yale University; he has also studied at the Chautauqua Institution School of Art. Brackett has exhibited widely; including solo exhibitions at Alpha Gallery, Boston, and his work is in the collections of Wellington Management and Danforth Art, as well as a number of private collections. Selected projects include the series Casting Off, Threshold, and Dark Animal—all exploring personal narratives surrounding memory and loss. Brackett was a Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowship Finalist in 2012 and is most recently a recipient of a 2013 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant.
Danforth Art often explores the use of art as a mechanism for healing, for discovery, and for recovery, and this theme runs through our spring exhibitions. Learn more.