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Portfolio
Paintings are avalible for purchase
Use the store to purchase, for comissions email me directly at Matthew@braunginn.com
Showings
Solo
November-December 2024: Art & Lit Lab, Madison, WI
May-June 2024: Bethel Lutheran Church, Madison, WI
Group
February 2025: Omega School Gallery, Black History Month Celebration
May 2024- September 2024: Trout Museum of Art, Appleton, WI
May 2024- August 2024: 100 State, Madison, WI
May 2024: Common Wealth Gallery
February 2024: Omega School Gallery
Current:
March 2025- June 82025: Overture Center for the Arts, Madison, WI
March 2025- April 26 2025: Carnelian Art Gallery, Madison, WI
Every piece is made with the movement of music flowing through me. A mix of genres, emotions, and vibes. You are welcome to experience some of that if you'd like. I have shared a custom playlist and a survey of some of the music used in these acts of creation. If playlist doesn't appear due to browser settings, find it here.
The Playlist: Work heavily influenced by music, sound, in space
Kung Fu Kenny's Big Faced Buddha
24Wx48L, oil on canvas
Beginning my oil adventures, listening to Kendricks Lamar GNX, working to find peace and acceptance with a dangerous regime now taking hold of the United States.
Beginning my oil adventures, listening to Kendricks Lamar GNX, working to find peace and acceptance with a dangerous regime now taking hold of the United States.
Dilla's Terracotta Turntable
40Wx30L, acrylic on wood.
A funked out turntable, influenced by the sounds of J Dilla.
Part of a growing "Dilla Series" dedicated to the late Hip-Hop producer J Dilla. Using bold colors, space, and geometry, to the beat of Dilla's Jazz, Soul, Funk, and R&B influenced beats.
A funked out turntable, influenced by the sounds of J Dilla.
Part of a growing "Dilla Series" dedicated to the late Hip-Hop producer J Dilla. Using bold colors, space, and geometry, to the beat of Dilla's Jazz, Soul, Funk, and R&B influenced beats.
Dilla's Heart Shaped Donut Box
30Wx40L, acrylic on wood
Shapes, shading, and angles, holding a donut, as the loops play.
Part of a growing "Dilla Series" dedicated to the late Hip-Hop producer J Dilla. Using bold colors, space, and geometry, to the beat of Dilla's Jazz, Soul, Funk, and R&B influenced beats.
Shapes, shading, and angles, holding a donut, as the loops play.
Part of a growing "Dilla Series" dedicated to the late Hip-Hop producer J Dilla. Using bold colors, space, and geometry, to the beat of Dilla's Jazz, Soul, Funk, and R&B influenced beats.
Dilla Made Shade Some Eggs
36Wx48L, acrylic on wood.
Influenced by a Dilla and Sade inspired playlist, smooth with movement, and depth. Edges that move with the beat breaks, into fluid eggs.
Part of a growing "Dilla Series" dedicated to the late Hip-Hop producer J Dilla. Using bold colors, space, and geometry, to the beat of Dilla's Jazz, Soul, Funk, and R&B influenced beats.
Influenced by a Dilla and Sade inspired playlist, smooth with movement, and depth. Edges that move with the beat breaks, into fluid eggs.
Part of a growing "Dilla Series" dedicated to the late Hip-Hop producer J Dilla. Using bold colors, space, and geometry, to the beat of Dilla's Jazz, Soul, Funk, and R&B influenced beats.
3 pieces of Dilla
Part of my Perpetual Arrangements and Beat Loops showing at Art Lit Lab in Madison, WI
Dilla's 3rd Eye
36x36, acrylic on wood
The shading moves, pulls you in, or jumps out, as Dilla's beats move with your soul.
Part of a growing "Dilla Series" dedicated to the late Hip-Hop producer J Dilla. Using bold colors, space, and geometry, to the beat of Dilla's Jazz, Soul, Funk, and R&B influenced beats.
The shading moves, pulls you in, or jumps out, as Dilla's beats move with your soul.
Part of a growing "Dilla Series" dedicated to the late Hip-Hop producer J Dilla. Using bold colors, space, and geometry, to the beat of Dilla's Jazz, Soul, Funk, and R&B influenced beats.
3 Stacks Presents: Dilla's Pancakes
30x30, acrylic on clayboard
Influenced by Andre 3000s, New Blue Sun and the sounds of J Dilla, spaced out movements and space.
Part of a growing "Dilla Series" dedicated to the late Hip-Hop producer J Dilla. Using bold colors, space, and geometry, to the beat of Dilla's Jazz, Soul, Funk, and R&B influenced beats.
Influenced by Andre 3000s, New Blue Sun and the sounds of J Dilla, spaced out movements and space.
Part of a growing "Dilla Series" dedicated to the late Hip-Hop producer J Dilla. Using bold colors, space, and geometry, to the beat of Dilla's Jazz, Soul, Funk, and R&B influenced beats.
Kamasi's 9th Wonder
40Wx30L, acrylic and charcoal powder on wood.
Influenced by the sounds of Jazz great Kamasi Washington and the legendary Hip-Hop producer 9th Wonder. Spiritual, earthy, and cosmic, mixed with the vibrant.
Influenced by the sounds of Jazz great Kamasi Washington and the legendary Hip-Hop producer 9th Wonder. Spiritual, earthy, and cosmic, mixed with the vibrant.
Behold– The Alchemy of MF Doom
30Wx40L, acrylic on wood
Created with a playlist, heavy on Hip-Hop producers The Alchemist and the late MF Doom. Using liminal space, edge, soul, shading, and intellectuality from their sound, and bringing it into physical space.
Created with a playlist, heavy on Hip-Hop producers The Alchemist and the late MF Doom. Using liminal space, edge, soul, shading, and intellectuality from their sound, and bringing it into physical space.
Starting Over is OK: It's Disco Baby
36Lx48W, acrylic and oil on wood
After a wrecked piece, listening to 70s and 80s dance hall, disco, Soul, and R&B, I started over. Representing the movement, and vibrance of those movements, sounds, and life. We start over everyday to live again.
After a wrecked piece, listening to 70s and 80s dance hall, disco, Soul, and R&B, I started over. Representing the movement, and vibrance of those movements, sounds, and life. We start over everyday to live again.
Thembi's Sigil
40Wx30L, acrylic on wood
Inspired by the sounds of jazz legend Pharoah Sanders, and his track and album Thembi, meaning hope.
Inspired by the sounds of jazz legend Pharoah Sanders, and his track and album Thembi, meaning hope.
The Root 2.0
28Wx36L, acrylic on wood
The second attempt to create this piece, now successful. Created with the sounds of Andre 3000 New Blue Sun, of geometry and liminal space, and pulling further inspiration from the Hip-Hop group, The Roots and their track Seed 2.0. Root yourself, and grow.
The second attempt to create this piece, now successful. Created with the sounds of Andre 3000 New Blue Sun, of geometry and liminal space, and pulling further inspiration from the Hip-Hop group, The Roots and their track Seed 2.0. Root yourself, and grow.
A Tome from Alice Coltrane
36Wx48L, oil on wood
Inspired by the long, deep, and spirtual sounds of Alice Coltrane.
Inspired by the long, deep, and spirtual sounds of Alice Coltrane.
Still Tippin'
36x36
Still Tippin', like UGK
Still Tippin', like UGK
Dvořák, off the Jupiter pack
36x36, acrylic on canvass
Created through the sounds of Dvořák, fluid in motion.
Created through the sounds of Dvořák, fluid in motion.
The Ethereal: Work of existence
Sols Anvil
36Wx48L, acrylic on wood
If anything is a portrait it is this. Intensity, spiritual, cosmic, yet grounded and my roots
If anything is a portrait it is this. Intensity, spiritual, cosmic, yet grounded and my roots
The Penitent Man...
30Wx40L, oil on canvas
Forgiveness of yourself, leads to forgiveness from the divine
Forgiveness of yourself, leads to forgiveness from the divine
Celestial Mirror
30Wx40L, acrylic on wood
A mental journey through the jungle, only to come across a subtly human shaped celestial, made from the trees and wood, to be a reflection of our own existence.
A mental journey through the jungle, only to come across a subtly human shaped celestial, made from the trees and wood, to be a reflection of our own existence.
(RE)Unions in Creation
40"x40", acrylic on canvas
The connective tissue of all creation, is in union, and reunions. No act of creation is independent; even seemingly solo acts, are reliant on something else— a solo saxophone player, builds of the sound before them, relies on the maker of the saxophone, and reeds, and more. Unions in all creation.
The connective tissue of all creation, is in union, and reunions. No act of creation is independent; even seemingly solo acts, are reliant on something else— a solo saxophone player, builds of the sound before them, relies on the maker of the saxophone, and reeds, and more. Unions in all creation.
Summation Soliloquy Of Maybes
48Wx36L, acrylic on canvas
Inspired by flowing jazz, during a stretch of relationships that were all "maybes."
Inspired by flowing jazz, during a stretch of relationships that were all "maybes."
(A)mend, Ahmen
40Wx30L, acrylic on canvas
Ethereal in our existence, space as our home, we are blessed to have the ability to mend ourselves; to live, we must accept this blessing from the eternal.
Ethereal in our existence, space as our home, we are blessed to have the ability to mend ourselves; to live, we must accept this blessing from the eternal.
Sprouts
30Wx40L, acrylic on canvas
Growth often comes from tiny moments
Growth often comes from tiny moments
Island Nights
18Wx38L, acrylic on clay board
From the memories, of cool nights on the mountain side of St.Thomas, with the ocean breeze, and motherly moon.
From the memories, of cool nights on the mountain side of St.Thomas, with the ocean breeze, and motherly moon.
Sols Paned Mosaic
36Wx48L, acrylic on canvas
A dedication to the God(s) of morning, light, and life. Bursting life into existence.
A dedication to the God(s) of morning, light, and life. Bursting life into existence.
"God's piper"
"God's piper"
40x40, acrylic on wood.
Part of "A New Blue Sun Produced" series, totaling 8 pieces. This piece is the pull of the light, of the best of ourselves, of the universe, and God within us. We can carry it, and leave a trail of it behind us for others to follow, as long as your lead by light and love.
40x40, acrylic on wood.
Part of "A New Blue Sun Produced" series, totaling 8 pieces. This piece is the pull of the light, of the best of ourselves, of the universe, and God within us. We can carry it, and leave a trail of it behind us for others to follow, as long as your lead by light and love.
"The Seal"
"The Seal"
40x40, acrylic, mixed medium, on canvas.
Part of "A New Blue Sun Produced" series, totaling 8 pieces. This one, The Seal, protects the nature and secrets of the universe and existence, can you unlock it?
40x40, acrylic, mixed medium, on canvas.
Part of "A New Blue Sun Produced" series, totaling 8 pieces. This one, The Seal, protects the nature and secrets of the universe and existence, can you unlock it?
Follow Alice if you want
36Lx12W, acrylic on gesso board
Will you see the tunnel of the unknown and embrace its journey?
Will you see the tunnel of the unknown and embrace its journey?
"Ascension"
30Lx10W, acrylic on gesso board
Part of "A New Blue Sun Produced" series, totaling 8 pieces. Letting go of ego, perceptions, and attachment, we can ascend to the best of humanity
Part of "A New Blue Sun Produced" series, totaling 8 pieces. Letting go of ego, perceptions, and attachment, we can ascend to the best of humanity
"An Unfound Door"
60Lx24W, acrylic on wood,
". . . a stone, a leaf, an unfound door; a stone, a leaf, a door. And of all the forgotten faces.
Naked and alone we came into exile. In her dark womb we did not know our mother's face; from the prison of her flesh have we come into the unspeakable and incommunicable prison of this earth.
Which of us has known his brother? Which of us has looked into his father's heart? Which of us has not remained forever prison-pent? Which of us is not forever a stranger and alone?
O waste of lost, in the hot mazes, lost, among bright stars on this weary, unbright cinder, lost! Remembering speechlessly we seek the great forgotten language, the lost lane-end into heaven, a stone, a leaf, an unfound door. Where? When?
O lost, and by the wind grieved, ghost, come back again."- Thomas Wolfe, Look Homeward, Angel
". . . a stone, a leaf, an unfound door; a stone, a leaf, a door. And of all the forgotten faces.
Naked and alone we came into exile. In her dark womb we did not know our mother's face; from the prison of her flesh have we come into the unspeakable and incommunicable prison of this earth.
Which of us has known his brother? Which of us has looked into his father's heart? Which of us has not remained forever prison-pent? Which of us is not forever a stranger and alone?
O waste of lost, in the hot mazes, lost, among bright stars on this weary, unbright cinder, lost! Remembering speechlessly we seek the great forgotten language, the lost lane-end into heaven, a stone, a leaf, an unfound door. Where? When?
O lost, and by the wind grieved, ghost, come back again."- Thomas Wolfe, Look Homeward, Angel
Things Left Unfinished
18Wx24L, acrylic on wood board
Sometimes, things in life will be left unfinished. We need to be okay with that.
Sometimes, things in life will be left unfinished. We need to be okay with that.
Sitting Beneath Emptiness
30Wx40L, acrylic on canvass
Meditation and finding peace after the inferno
Meditation and finding peace after the inferno
Inferno Avoided
30Wx40L, acrylic on canvass
Escaping the inferno
Escaping the inferno
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