Yesterday Michael sent me a blog post by Becky Stern over at MAKE: on paper artist, Matt Shlian. The pictures in her post were pretty great and clearly up my alley with their repetitive nature, however, when I dug further into the pages of his work on his site I found some even more awesome that I needed to post!
This work, Sasq, is like a lunar landscape…of paper. I love that it looks like the outside of an urchin or a cool porcelain mold. Matt refers to himself as a paper engineer, using paper to visualize cellular division and solar cell development, per his artist statement.
As Becky pointed out, his work reminds her of Jen Stark, which it does to me too. It also twinges of the work Erika does with toilet paper rolls and Richard Sweeney creates in his sculptures.
Matt works in Ann Arbor, MI but attended Alfred University in New York and Cranbrook Academy as well studying printmaking, sculpture, print media and paper engineering.
I just love everything I’ve seen of his and he does 2D works as well, which interestingly remind me of Meander‘s pieces – see Matt’s below, which he did with a Bic pen!
Tags: paper, repetitive