To create his “wood painting,” Matthew Scheatzle cuts, sands, and fits together pieces of found wood into color substrates, producing imagery that is just beyond the realm of the recognizable. By finding and describing realms that exist between representation and abstraction, these gorgeously complex visual investigations ricochet the viewer between distinct aesthetic microcosms, presenting something familiar—a portrait, a sea creature, a natural organism—before shapeshifting into something new.

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EDUCATION
1999 M.F.A., Mills College, Oakland, CA
1997 B.F.A., Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2023 Dissolution, Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2020 The de Young Open, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA

2019 Material, Land and Body, inaugural visual art exhibition at Idora Park Project Space, Oakland, CA

Then And Now: The Fortieth Anniversary Alumni Exhibition, Sonoma State University Gallery, Rohnert Park, CA

2018 In the Aggregate, Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Abstraction at Large, Site:Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY
2017 San Francisco Decorator Showcase, San Francisco, CA
2016 San Francisco Decorator Showcase, San Francisco, CA
2015 San Francisco Decorator Showcase, San Francisco, CA
2014 If a Tree Fell, U.C. Davis Design Museum, Davis, CA
San Francisco Decorator Showcase, San Francisco, CA
Art Complex, Pop Up Installation, Oakland, CA
2013 Art at the Colorflow, Matthew Scheatzle and Alison Woods, Emeryville, CA
Inaugural Opening, Studio Grand, Oakland, CA
Innovations in Craft, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
Clay in the Bay, de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara, CA
2012 SEVEN, Schneider Museum of Art, Ashland, OR
San Francisco Decorator Showcase, San Francisco, CA
2011 San Francisco Decorator Showcase, San Francisco, CA
2009 San Francisco Decorator Showcase, San Francisco, CA
Secret Lives of Teachers, Jackson Street Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Never/Always, MG Gallery, Oakland, CA
2007 Gallery 555, Oakland Museum at City Center, CA
Structure, LMCA Gallery, Pittsburgh, CA
2006 Happy Pills, New House Gallery, Ross, CA
Hair, John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI
By the Hand, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
2005 A Tale To Tell, John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI
2004 25th Anniversary Show, SFMOMA Artist Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2003 SFMOMA Artist Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Bay Area Currents, Oakland Art Gallery, Oakland, CA
Until Now, Cecile Moochnek Gallery, Berkley, CA
2001 Small Works Show (curated by Kenneth Baker), S-MOVA, Santa Rosa, CA 1999
1999 Introduction '99, Traywick Gallery, Berkeley, CA
Graduate Show '99, Mills Museum, Oakland, CA

AWARDS
2016 Alameda Arts Commission / Highland Hospital
2013 Sustainable Arts Foundation Grant Recipient, San Francisco, CA
2009 European Ceramics Work Centre/EKWC, the Netherlands
2004 John Michael Kohler Art Center Residency, Kohler, WI
2001 Fleishacker Nominee
1999 Jay DeFeo Artist Grant