Milo Matthieu is a first-generation Haitian painter born in Los Angeles, CA in 1990. Drawing upon the artistic history of his family heritage, in particular the Haitian paintings and African masks that populated his childhood home, Matthieu has developed a distinctive visual language of bright colors and anthropomorphic forms by which he translates his cultural legacy into contemporary terms.
Through a process that foregrounds the unguarded manifestations of his subconscious, Matthieu constructs bold, highly textured portraits and abstracted scenes. A sociological storyteller, Matthieu invites his audience to add to the conversation as he narrates his encounters and travels through a creative process of psychic automatism, popular within Surrealism and Dada. Fractured faces and artistic stories convey the artist’s often uneasy emotional terrain as he explores the intersection of community, landscape, and culture.