GRACE MATOS
Location:
Port Chester, NY 10573, USA
ARTIST BIO
Grace Matos (b. 1992) is an interdisciplinary emerging artist. She works primarily on watercolor and oil paintings. Her works examine the process of drawing, using a suggestive cartographic language that challenges memory and the urge to encode meaning through lines and patterns of color.
She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Painting and Humanities from the University of Puerto Rico. She currently lives and works in New York.
ARTIST STATEMENT
In my practice, I focus on the plasticity that materials can offer, the never-ending conversation of mind over matter, and the possibilities of extrapolating life circumstances into a visual form. My process often starts by reconfiguring the surfaces into irregular shapes that resemble non-geographical locations. What are the limits of these materials? How is my mind transformed through each single process of application to a surface? How do threads intertwine with paper, wood, linen, or canvas? Studying the traditional methods in which a medium has been historically used offers a base for structural solutions; however, the process of building a surface for me happens organically.
Intentionally, I try to offer the viewer an aerial perspective as a way to distance myself from my own biases.
