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Matthew Whitney
walking - mapping - being
Drawings
Paintings
Projects
Crumpled Paper
Drawing Maps – Writing in the Urban Grid
Drawings – Walking the Warzone
Videos
Constructing a Segregated City
Clairvoyance (walking the words of others)
Reflection Carriers
I went for a walk the other day (PAST TENSE)
It’s Right Here
That Which Is – Exhibit and Lecture at Whitworth University, 2019
Movement in Kind (walking to the bus stop)
Unmarked Crosswalk (fragility of the present moment)
The Tourist (i am the stranger)
Work Portfolio
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Matthew Whitney
walking - mapping - being
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Drawings
Paintings
Projects
Crumpled Paper
Drawing Maps – Writing in the Urban Grid
Drawings – Walking the Warzone
Videos
Constructing a Segregated City
Clairvoyance (walking the words of others)
Reflection Carriers
I went for a walk the other day (PAST TENSE)
It’s Right Here
That Which Is – Exhibit and Lecture at Whitworth University, 2019
Movement in Kind (walking to the bus stop)
Unmarked Crosswalk (fragility of the present moment)
The Tourist (i am the stranger)
Work Portfolio
Blog
Spiritual Companionship
CV
About
Buy Art
Contact
All Drawings
Encroachment, pastel and graphite on paper, 36″ x 52″, 2025
Encroachment, pastel and graphite on paper, 36" x 52", 2025
Darkness Has Not Overcome, graphite on paper, 45” x 60” 2020-2025.
Darkness Has Not Overcome, graphite on paper, 45” x 60” 2020-2025.
Deep Swimmers (commission for Presence Journal, vol 30 issue 1, Spiritual Directors International)
Deep Swimmers (commission for Presence Journal, vol 30 issue 1, Spiritual Directors International), graphite on paper | approx. 36W x 45H | 2024
Walk through Capitol Hill, watercolor, 22″ x 28″
Walk through Capitol Hill, watercolor, 22" x 28"
Walk through Ballard, watercolor, 22″ x 28″
Walk through Ballard, watercolor, 22" x 28"
Walking Bellevue, graphite and pastel on paper, 30″ x 40″, 2021
Walking Bellevue, graphite and pastel on paper, 30" x 40", 2021
Walking Belltown (Seattle), graphite and pastel on paper, 30″ x 40″, 2021
Walking Belltown (Seattle), graphite and pastel on paper, 30" x 40", 2021
That Which Is | graphite on paper | 60″ x 115″ | 2019
That Which Is, graphite on paper, 2018, 60" x 115"
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a walk always goes somewhere, graphite and acrylic on paper, 2019, 60" x 150"
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Particulate Participate, graphite, acrylic, and watercolor on paper, 2020, 25" x 25"
That Which Is – Gallery View
That Which Is - Gallery View
Incarnated
Incarnated | acrylic and ink on paper | 141" x 60" | 2019
It’s Right Here (Detail)
It's Right Here | ink on paper | approx. 35" x 24" | 2019 (Detail)
It’s Right Here
It's Right Here | ink on paper | approx. 35" x 24" | 2019
Bridge (a documentation and further examination of my walking across the paper) | 60″ x 70″ | 2018
Bridge (a documentation and further examination of my walking across the paper) | 60" x 70" | 2018
Movement in Kind | pastel on paper | 34″ x 60″ | 2015
Movement in Kind (walking to the bus stop) | pastel on paper | 34" x 60" | 2015
Clairvoyance (walked through Greenwood, Seattle), 2011, 75″ x 60″, graphite and pastel on paper
Clairvoyance (walked through Greenwood, Seattle), 2011, 75" x 60", graphite and pastel on paper
sphere of sovereignty | graphite and charcoal on paper
can't throw it away | graphite on paper | 36" x 25" | 2019
chaos monde | watercolor and graphite on paper
chaos monde | watercolor and graphite on paper | 36" x 25" | 2019
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Cacophonies of Rhythm | pastel and graphite on paper | 95″ x 60″ | 2019 (Commission)
A large commissioned map drawing for an apartment building in South Lake Union, Seattle.
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A large commissioned drawing for a church in Bellevue, WA, comprising many paths!
Glass Half
Glass Half | colored pencil on paper | 80" x 60" | 2015
Spiral
Who Among Us Is Invisible, watercolor, 22″ x 28″, 2018
Who Among Us Is Invisible, watercolor, 22" x 28", 2018 collection of The City of Seattle Office of Arts & Culture
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200,000 (TPS refugees being sent out of the country), watercolor, 22" x 28", 2018 collection of The City of Seattle Office of Arts & Culture
Movement, Place, Connectivity and Receptivity, Graphite, pastel, and conte on paper | approx. 60″ H x 84″ W | private commission
Graphite, pastel, and conte on paper | approx. 60" H x 84" W | private commission
Constructing a Segregated City, collage on paper, 22″ x 30″, 2017. Map of Seattle with text referencing racist language from neighborhood covenants, which can be found in many city property deeds. Text derived from research by Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project: http://depts.washington.edu/civilr/
Constructing a Segregated City, collage on paper, 22" x 30", 2017. Map of Seattle with text referencing racist language from neighborhood covenants, which can be found in many city property deeds. Text derived from research by Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project: http://depts.washington.edu/civilr/
Collage
Current Work-1
Walking downtown (Volcano!), 25" x 38", pastel on paper
Walking the Warzone of an American City
Walking the Warzone of an American city, gouache and ink on paper, 22" x 30", 2017, collection of The City of Seattle Office of Arts and Culture
Warzone – detail
Warzone - Detail
warzone – Z detail
warzone - Z | detail
warzone – E
warzone - E | ink and pencil on paper | 20.5" x 26"
warzone – N
warzone - N | ink and pencil on paper | 20.5" x 26"
warzone – O
warzone - O | ink and pencil on paper | 20.5" x 26"
warzone – R
warzone - R | ink and pencil on paper | 20.5" x 26"
warzone – A
warzone - A | ink and pencil on paper | 20.5" x 26"
warzone – W
warzone - W | ink and pencil on paper | 20.5" x 26"
warzone cumulative walks
Walking the Warzone of an American City
warzone - 122,200 steps - graphite and pastel on paper | 2017
Web Criers
Web Criers | graphite inside custom MDF boxes, cables, LCD monitors | 2011
Detail – Web Criers
Web Criers (Detail - drawing of Fukushima Reactor site, displayed via webcam)
Spiral | 22″ x 28″ | acrylic ink on paper | 2013 (SOLD)
Spiral
Tie a Knot | 28″ x 22″ | pastel on paper | 2014
Tie a Knot
Greenwood Explosion
After the Greenwood Explosion | 28" x 22" | watercolor on paper | 2016
a line amongst other lines detail
A Line Amongst Other Lines (detail)
Clairvoyance 1, pastel on paper, 60″ x 80″, 2011
The ‘At’ Sign | 28″ x 22″ | acrylic ink on paper |
The '@' Sign
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Binary Broken (walk through Downtown Seattle) | 9" x 12" | acrylic ink on paper | 2014
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Bus Stop (University District) | 9" x 12" | acrylic ink on paper | 2014
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Self Portrait | watercolor and ink on paper | 9" x 12" | 2014
Lightbulb 1 OFF (walk through Ballard), 28″ x 22″, ink on paper (SOLD) (SOLD)
Lightbulb 1 OFF (walk through Ballard)
Lightbulb 1 ON (walk through Ballard), 28″ x 22″, ink on paper (SOLD)
Lightbulb 1 ON (walk through Ballard)
A Line Amongst Other Lines | 60″ x 83″ | pastel on paper | 2015 (SOLD)
A Line Amongst Other Lines, graphite and pastel on paper, 70" x 87", 2015
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