https://mattbrackett.com/artwork-nl daily 0.75 2026-01-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5845b6324402430206d1fab6/1485289828944-ST6KQXU7MULQQ1F39WHH/Brackett_CastingOff.jpg Matt Brackett :: Selected Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5845b6324402430206d1fab6/1485288858706-T97Z8J908PXHR6WXNZV3/Brackett_Nightfall.jpg Matt Brackett :: Selected Work - Nightfall 36"h x 34"w. oil on canvas on aluminum panel. ©2007 Matt Brackett. private collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5845b6324402430206d1fab6/1485304280288-DX2X9QAGN3LPG77JUJLM/Brackett_LightDuty.jpg Matt Brackett :: Selected Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5845b6324402430206d1fab6/1528492827772-PEPQCOXDF3NH9ZO3LPMS/IMG_4266_1_web.jpg Matt Brackett :: Selected Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5845b6324402430206d1fab6/1617846947478-0RBFIL63K9II3UBOHKJF/Brackett_Imagine_19_web_2000.jpg Matt Brackett :: Selected Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5845b6324402430206d1fab6/1484949550950-Y67RD1PSI1A0DM3VFYLJ/Brackett_Faith2.jpg Matt Brackett :: Selected Work - Faith Transit II 24"h x 18"w. oil on panel. ©2015 Matt Brackett. private collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5845b6324402430206d1fab6/1753485651337-7Z3HFRCW9CZUIE4XQU2A/Brackett_Homeland_web_2000.jpg Matt Brackett :: Selected Work - American Totem 42"h x 56"w. oil on linen on aluminum panel. ©2025 Matt Brackett. collection of the artist https://mattbrackett.com/news daily 0.75 2025-10-09 https://mattbrackett.com/news/2025/10/23/affordable-art-fair-boston-4wr4r monthly 0.5 2025-12-30 https://mattbrackett.com/news/2025/10/9/art-basel-miami-beach monthly 0.5 2025-10-09 https://mattbrackett.com/news/2025/10/23/affordable-art-fair-boston monthly 0.5 2025-12-30 https://mattbrackett.com/news/2023/5/4/art-as-salve-at-the-new-art-center monthly 0.5 2023-05-04 https://mattbrackett.com/news/2021/11/18/blue-review-art-prize monthly 0.5 2023-05-04 https://mattbrackett.com/news/2023/5/25/friend-of-the-artist-vol-16 monthly 0.5 2023-05-04 https://mattbrackett.com/news/2023/5/5/supersonic-faces-and-figures monthly 0.5 2023-05-04 https://mattbrackett.com/press-list daily 0.75 2026-01-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5845b6324402430206d1fab6/1768341817918-JJLJM0R8S5K76V39FIPI/image-asset.jpeg Press List - Featured in "Ocean in a Drop" Substack “Matt Brackett is a beacon for story and its frictions.” Matt was asked by critic Cate McQuaid to describe his attitude towards beginning afresh in a time of uncertainty. Click here for his response, or here for the entire Substack. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5845b6324402430206d1fab6/1768341817918-JJLJM0R8S5K76V39FIPI/image-asset.jpeg Press List - Featured in "Ocean in a Drop" Substack “Matt Brackett is a beacon for story and its frictions.” Matt was asked by critic Cate McQuaid to describe his attitude towards beginning afresh in a time of uncertainty. Click here for his response, or here for the entire Substack. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5845b6324402430206d1fab6/1680552051053-YV6DTMF2TPM479YYJKVM/image-asset.png Press List - Featured in Friend of the Artist, Vol. 16 “In this alternate reality of Brackett’s making, he explores our connections or lack thereof to one another, as well as how a contemporary environment steeped in A.I. impacts and obfuscates these dynamics.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5845b6324402430206d1fab6/1637254322806-TAF8556RA7I28ZVZV0LI/image-asset.jpeg Press List - Globe solo show review / McQuaid “At Alpha Gallery, Matt Brackett’s blue-tinged portraits ask the viewer to consider the overlap of humanity and artificial intelligence.” Read the full article https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5845b6324402430206d1fab6/1593991065938-27XDQC6ZLRGLRSET11J2/image-asset.png Press List - Featured on WGBH radio Arun Rath, host of All Things Considered, features the story behind Matt’s painting series, One Can Imagine, and relates how the paintings respond in part to the turbulence of the pandemic. Listen to the spot here at minute 15:30. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5845b6324402430206d1fab6/1580354004362-WKI8ZECYC5ZLPQ7TFFL6/2015_Artscope_cover-copy.jpg Press List - The Hippo / Sykeny - Bitter Chill feature “His mission with the exhibit, he said, is to encourage people to reflect on the intentions, ideals and morals of the people who fought to make the U.S. a better country. ‘I think those ideals are in jeopardy right now and are something that we need to continue to fight for.’” Read the full article https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5845b6324402430206d1fab6/1540313079013-D056J3T9HCFOTPXYMUMY/2018.10.22_Boston_Voyager_interview_page_web.png Press List - Boston Voyager interview Matt Brackett is interviewed about his artistic background, his body of work, Bitter Chill, and the role of artists in today’s volatile world. Read the interview here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5845b6324402430206d1fab6/1485461502063-1BR6CW0XDEAJPXDRUEWP/2015_Artscope_cover-copy.jpg Press List - Artscope / Martins - cover page review "[Matt Brackett is] a master at freezing-up uncertainty and forcing the viewer to ponder what will happen next. This approach is challenging and beautifully uncomfortable, telling us something about the artist's sly temperament." Read the full article https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5845b6324402430206d1fab6/1580354947286-XHEHF88IHGQ0YO7Z5ZY7/2018.10.22_Boston_Voyager_interview_page_web.png Press List - Supersonic feature of Dark Animal / Tutor “I think these works… describe a certain energy or emotion not so easy to define except through a visual telling, an emotion that holds some type of unknown chaotic energy.” Read the feature here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5845b6324402430206d1fab6/1540311617933-XDH1Z101IAS2UA85A0I6/image-asset.jpeg Press List - Wednesday's Child: 14-Year-Old Nex Jack Williams, of WBZ/CBS Boston, interviews Nex, a teen up for adoption, in the Danforth Art Museum’s gallery featuring Brackett’s New Waters solo show. Nex was inspired by the painting Temple Thieves, and drew his own composition which he shares at the end of the feature. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5845b6324402430206d1fab6/1485461486883-YI0OOMACDFFT2DXWEWFG/Brackett_Danforth1.jpg Press List - Matt Brackett: New Waters / Roscio - wall text "Matt Brackett’s work is a striking combination of the real and surreal. Drawing from landscape traditions throughout art history, his paintings are masterful compositions of form and light, threading personal and family narratives to create a realistic, yet alternate reality." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5845b6324402430206d1fab6/1485462148894-18M99NCD6ASRR51K7DGI/100_Boston_Artists.jpg Press List - 100 Boston Artists / Frenn - curated independent catalog Matt Brackett is featured in a curated compendium of notable Boston artists. Link to book https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5845b6324402430206d1fab6/1485462637872-LMRFQ3X3C57P6GZJ5YCK/NAP80.jpg Press List - New American Paintings #80 / Mergel - catalog "Matt Brackett presents individuals in idyllically rendered landscapes subject to some unseen psychological or supernatural planetary unraveling: David Lynch scenarios in a Thomas Eakins light." Read the full statement https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5845b6324402430206d1fab6/1485462919915-Y3BYCPX4V5K5JQ2QYQDL/ArtNewEngland_cover_descreen.jpg Press List - Art New England / Consoli - cover page review "Matt Brackett's narrative works move the viewer beyond the boundaries of the canvas itself, but they engage equally with the painted surface and the insistence of luminosity below the hidden waters." Read the full article https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5845b6324402430206d1fab6/1485487319231-JD2AELXO2LWCSQKFKUJE/ArtNewEngland_old.jpg Press List - Art New England / Faxon "All of these paintings, though realistic or in some cases surrealistic, are really about the handling of space and light. Brackett decidedly updates and moves the tradition of American landscape painting into the twenty-first century. Beneath the beautifully painted surfaces enigmas and questions abound." Read the full article https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5845b6324402430206d1fab6/1485486109827-KQHE24N342ZKIFTVLDVF/BedtimeStory.jpg Press List - The Boston Globe Magazine / McQuaid "One painting, from idea to canvas to wall." A recounting of the painting Bedtime Story, from genesis to purchase by a collector. Read the full article https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5845b6324402430206d1fab6/1485488736909-31ZB1H2W7IAQ4XJTJ1KM/globe_circle_logo.jpg Press List - The Boston Globe / McQuaid "...Brackett casts the glowing white of the house's lights against the electric blue that fills the sky just after the sun sets. He milks the magic and portent of that moment, which is neither night nor day, a time when unpredictable things can happen. In Brackett's paintings, they do." Read the full article https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5845b6324402430206d1fab6/1485547087580-3WW4DJP9ZT03K2WC95CF/Brackett_Complex2.jpg Press List - The Duxbury Reporter / Filcman "It came as a complete surprise to both mother and son, they said, that they were sharing a dominant subject matter in their works." Read the full article https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5845b6324402430206d1fab6/1485546885932-2S4ZI1VVEN00NFTCRWWT/ArtComplex_brochure.jpg Press List - The Art Complex Museum - exhibition essay "Rendered with light, intense color and emotionally charged perspectives reminiscent of Caravaggio, [Brackett's] characters actively grapple with the story of the house and its occupants, yet leave no easy answers for the viewer." Read the full statement https://mattbrackett.com/portraiture-gallery daily 0.75 2019-03-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5845b6324402430206d1fab6/1528836294127-9YIDCHKA75LXE1PXABN9/Brackett_KarleyLisbon.jpg Portraiture Gallery - Karley in Lisbon 18"h x 20"w. oil on linen on aluminum panel. ©2017 Matt Brackett https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5845b6324402430206d1fab6/1528836294127-9YIDCHKA75LXE1PXABN9/Brackett_KarleyLisbon.jpg Portraiture Gallery - Karley in Lisbon 18"h x 20"w. oil on linen on aluminum panel. ©2017 Matt Brackett https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5845b6324402430206d1fab6/1528836400639-7HI9DTUZIKXL5F0ZEJJH/Brackett_KarleyLisbon_dtl.jpg Portraiture Gallery - detail of Karley in Lisbon https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5845b6324402430206d1fab6/1485892155595-2ASGXDBJR7ECV439MGW0/Brackett_Rachel.jpg Portraiture Gallery - Rachel 15"h x 10"w. oil on canvas on panel. ©2016 Matt Brackett https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5845b6324402430206d1fab6/1485892147176-L8XDL8J7B7D2C45G748K/Brackett_Coleman.jpg Portraiture Gallery - Coleman 15"h x 10"w. oil on canvas on panel. ©2016 Matt Brackett https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5845b6324402430206d1fab6/1485891296976-JPSDZIAXL8HVR7H87AGJ/Brackett_Moonstone.jpg Portraiture Gallery - Moonstone 46"h x 34 1/2"w. oil on linen on aluminum panel. ©2015 Matt Brackett Certificate of Excellence, Portrait Society of America, 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5845b6324402430206d1fab6/1485891294552-7S9DHHJV5WX1OFG0KGEV/Brackett_Moonstone_detail.jpg Portraiture Gallery - detail of Moonstone https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5845b6324402430206d1fab6/1485892149237-OR0OHEN71S5U0FX1NBQP/Brackett_Ethan.jpg Portraiture Gallery - Ethan 14"h x 11"w. oil on canvas on panel. ©2016 Matt Brackett https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5845b6324402430206d1fab6/1552954032338-MUYX2DHU7S5WYYHK09U9/Brackett_Marley.jpg Portraiture Gallery - Marley 12"h x 9"w. oil on canvas on panel. ©2019 Matt Brackett https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5845b6324402430206d1fab6/1485892158851-2IL3TGLVX40MQWUJ2WB7/Brackett_SP.jpg Portraiture Gallery - Thirty Nine 21 1/16”h x 11 7/8”w. Oil on canvas on aluminum panel. ©2014 Matt Brackett https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5845b6324402430206d1fab6/1485891295342-4SIWSY97BIGQ8HUVM93E/Brackett_Caper.jpg Portraiture Gallery - Caper 11 7/8"h x 8 7/8"w. oil on panel. ©2016 Matt Brackett https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5845b6324402430206d1fab6/1485892153287-LDV762NI0FUF3BBEGS3M/Brackett_Lila.jpg Portraiture Gallery - Lila 10"h x 7 1/2"w. oil on panel. ©2015 Matt Brackett https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5845b6324402430206d1fab6/1485892155732-KTHW9AO8JC1I3IOHU2YQ/Brackett_sm_Petra.jpg Portraiture Gallery - Untitled 9"h x 7 1/2" w. oil on canvas on panel. ©2010 Matt Brackett https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5845b6324402430206d1fab6/1485892147102-4V1P6UDLKF9G1DZTHDRT/Brackett_Bean.jpg Portraiture Gallery - Sigil (Bean) 5 3/4”h x 5”w. 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