Matthew Langley

Who is Matthew Langley?

Matthew Langley is a Washington, D.C. area painter and photographer whose work has focuses on space, compression, volume and sentience and Vanishing American DIY culture the photographic series is titled Vanishing Culture USA.

The painting work with structures are a visual system exploring ideas within a framework that allows a departure point for further exploration. This departure - from strict formal codes allows an informal precision that can highlight the variety, complexity and questioning nature of painting as well as offer a further approach to reductive image making. This open ended approach is core to the images created and allows them to be handled with the same approach - a non-specific exactness.

Kriston Capps writes of Langley's work; "Matthew Langley gets points for audacity. His paintings draw easy comparisons to a host of latter-day abstract-expressionist titans, from Agnes Martin and Sean Scully. Make no mistake, Langley courts those comparisons—his emphasis on the grid places him squarely within that Lacanian camp that finds the sublime through repetition, variation, and trauma.