Matt Lamb
as Abstract Expressionist

"...One only wishes the show had delved more deeply into the artist's recent foray into abstraction.  Lamb has produced dynamic gestural paintings and is a highly sophisticated neo-Expressionist."
--Richard Speer, ARTnews, September 2003

Below is a selection of Matt Lamb's paintings in the vein of Abstract Expressionism.
The artist began painting semi-abstractly in 1999 and in 2002 took the leap into total abstraction.  It should be noted, however, that he continues to see the "spirits" in these works that he has always seen -- and continues to see -- in his figurative work; he simply chooses not to delineate their contours.  The result is a startling new body of work, informed by Lamb's twenty years as an innovator of surface and color but radically different from anything he has ever painted before.  While it falls, formally and philosophically, within the Abstract Expressionist tradition, it is taking the style in directions its original exponents could not have fathomed.

For more information on Matt Lamb, visit:
www.MattLamb.com
and
www.MattLamb.org

For information on the forthcoming biography of Matt Lamb by Richard Speer, visit:
www.RichardSpeer.com/mattlamb.html

For information about Richard Speer, visit:
www.RichardSpeer.com/richresume.html