Matthew Dennison

Matthew Dennison: was born and raised in Portland, Oregon and has lived within the same five mile radius his entire life. He has been exhibiting paintings throughout the country for over 45 years. His work employs a refined method in which his gloved hands, rags, and masking tape upstage brushes as his primary tools, giving us sharply defined regions of bright color and surfaces. He has a self–imposed discipline of drawing and writing poems every day. He showed in Chicago from 2002 to 2008 at the Jim Tigerman Gallery, and the Melanee Cooper Gallery. His work resides in a vast number of public and private collections, including the Portland Art Museum, the Tacoma Art Museum, Flint Institute of Arts, etc. His drawings are featured in the German publication,Atelierhefte.