Matthew G. "Matt" Beall (born December 7, 1962) is an American abstract painting artist. Working in Europe, creating abstract panels, scenes and figures, his works are collected worldwide. They are exhibited in Germany as well as online. Beall's works include two-tone fields of blues and greens or reds and yellows, elongated figures grounded in a monochromatic landscape, rendered in acrylic on canvas and paper, in motion and tension, in contrast with each other. Born in California, he is a self-taught artist. He pored over his grandfather's art books as a child and drew for hours. Beall's introduction to the relationship of colors to each other, and to design, came on the steel of car bodies in California's auto body shops, where he painted and customized graphic and abstract designs for more than 15 years. He learned about mixing, toning, layering, shading, grinding, fading, blending and contrasting colors. In the 1990s, Beall traveled and worked extensively in Mexico and Central America. He then moved to Europe. He has been working and studying in Germany since 2000, and speaks German fluently. Matthew Beall travels extensively throughout Europe, Canada and the United States. He studies deconstructing paintings, sculpture and drawings in the museums and contemporary galleries of Europe, and has participated in several group and solo exhibitions.
See also
- Abstract art
- Geometric abstraction
- Lyrical Abstraction
- Abstract expressionism
- Action painting
- List of painters by name
